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SUBMITTER: Saito S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11305251 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heliyon 20240714 14
The coherent state from a laser source has spin and orbital degrees of freedom, which allow an arbitrary superposition state among orthogonal states with varying amplitudes and phases. Here, we theoretically show coherent photons with SU(<i>N</i>) symmetry are characterised by expectation values of angular momentum shown on a hypersphere in SO( N 2 - 1 ) space. To demonstrate expected unitary transformations in experiments, we have constructed generators of transformations in the Lie group sim ...[more]