Tuesday, June 11, 2013

1306.2017 (Young S. Kim et al.)

Symmetries shared by the Poincaré Group and the Poincaré Sphere    [PDF]

Young S. Kim, Marilyn E. Noz
Henri Poincar\'e formulated the mathematics of Lorentz transformations, known as the Poincar\'e group. He also formulated the Poincar\'e sphere for polarization optics. It is shown that these two mathematical instruments can be derived from the two-by-two representations of the Lorentz group. Wigner's little groups for internal space-time symmetries are studied in detail. While the particle mass is a Lorentz-invariant quantity, it is shown possible to address its variations in terms of the decoherence mechanism in polarization optics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2017

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