Title
Pendulum beams: Light beams simulating the quantum pendulum
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Colgate University
Publisher(s)
Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Abstract
We study non-diffracting solutions of the 2-dimensional Helmholtz equation in elliptical coordinates to simulate the quantum nonlinear pendulum. Stationary and wavepacket modes are in quantitative agreement with the quantum probabilities of swinging and rotating solutions.
Volume
Part F141-CQO 2019
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084396684
Source
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
ISSN of the container
21622701
ISBN of the container
9781557528209
Conference
Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, CQO_2019
Sponsor(s)
We thank M.R. Dennis and S. Chávez-Cerda for useful discussions. This work was funded by the grant from the National Science Foundation PHY-1506321.
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