Optical activities as computing resources for space-time symmetries

DOI10.1080/09500340902795984MaRDI QIDQ3564785zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 26 May 2010

Published in Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4020

zbMATH Keywords

internal space-time symmetriesLorentz groupoptical activities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: It is known that optical activities can perform rotations. It is shown that the rotation, if modulated by attenuations, can perform symmetry operations of Wigner's little group which dictates the internal space-time symmetries of elementary particles.

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