The spinorial representation of polarized light and Berry phase
Abstract
From relativistic point of view it has been shown here that a polarized photon can be visualized to give an equivalent spinorial description when the two-component spinor is the eigenvector of $2\times2$ Hermitian, Polarization matrix. The Berry phase of the initial state can be calculated by matrix method as it complete one rotation over a closed path on the Poincare's sphere.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2011
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1107.1868
- Bibcode:
- 2011arXiv1107.1868B
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages