Hubble and Planck scale limits on the determination of orbital angular momentum states of light

2012/01/16 by Fabrizio Tamburini, F. Tamburini, B. Thidé +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry #Optics (physics.optics) #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #gr-qc #physics.optics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.3347

4 pages

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Abstract

We review Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light. By taking into account the largest and smallest scales present in nature, such as the the Hubble radius and the Planck length, we have found that there exist upper and lower physical limits to the determination of the OAM of a photon.

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