Macroscopic Singlet, Triplet, and Colour-Charged States of Coherent Photons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01216v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:09:02 GMT
• Title: Macroscopic Singlet, Triplet, and Colour-Charged States of Coherent Photons
• Authors: Shinichi Saito
• Abstract summary: A ray of photons, emitted from a laser source, is in a coherent state, where macroscopic number of photons are degenerated in the same quantum state. We experimentally demonstrate that we can construct generators of rotations for the quantum states of coherent photons.
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• Abstract: A ray of photons, emitted from a laser source, is in a coherent state, where macroscopic number of photons are degenerate in the same quantum state. The coherent state has degrees of freedom for spin and orbital angular momentum, which allow an arbitrary superposition state among orthogonal states with varying their amplitudes and phases, described by a representation theory of Lie algebra and Lie group. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that we can construct generators of rotations for the quantum states of coherent photons, simply by combining widely available optical components, such as half- and quarter-wave plates and vortex lenses. We have found that a superposition state between vortexed and no-vortex states is characterised by the motion of the topological charge upon the rotation in the SU(3) states. We also realised singlet and triplet states by combining rays of photons with orthogonal polarisation states and vortexed states. This corresponds to realise an effective SU(4) state and we have confirmed the projection to an SU(2)$\times$SU(2) state upon passing through a polariser.

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