Geometric phase and helicity inversion of photons propagating inside a noncoplanarly curved optical fiber

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00118-XMaRDI QIDQ1860862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lihong Ma, Jian Qi Shen

Publication date 4 March 2003

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302120

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionLewis-Riesenfeld invariant theorytime-dependent Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: The Letter presents an exact expression for the non-adiabatic non-cyclic geometric phase of photons propagating inside a noncoplanarly curved optical fiber by using the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant theory. It is shown that the helicity inversion of photons arises in the curved fiber. Since we have exactly solved the time-dependent Schr"{o}dinger equation that governs the propagation of photons in a curved fiber and, moreover, the chronological product is not involved in this exact solution, our formulation therefore has several advantages over other treatments based on the classical Maxwell's theory and the Berry's adiabatic quantum theory. The potential application of helicity inversion of photons to information science is briefly suggested.

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