Optical Activities as Computing Resources for Space-time Symmetries

TL;DR

This paper explores how optical activities, when combined with attenuation, can implement space-time symmetry operations relevant to elementary particles, bridging optics and fundamental physics.

Contribution

It demonstrates that optical activities, modulated by attenuation, can realize Wigner's little group symmetries, a novel application linking optics to particle physics.

Findings

Optical activities can perform rotations.

Attenuation modulation enables symmetry operations.

Potential applications in simulating particle symmetries.

Abstract

It is known that optical activities can perform rotations. It is shown that the rotation, if modulated by attenuations, can perform symmetry operations of Wigner's little group which dictates the internal space-time symmetries of elementary particles.