Title
Pendulum beams: Light beams simulating the quantum pendulum
Date Issued
04 August 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference presentation
Author(s)
Colgate University
Publisher(s)
Optical Society of America (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.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086287195
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, CQO 2019
ISBN of the container
9781943580699
Conference
Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, CQO 2019 Rochester 4 August 2019 through 8 August 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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