Topic: moment of inertia

The talk explores a quantitative connection between Huygens’s legacies in wave optics and classical mechanics. Optical polarization, coherence and entanglement are related to mechanical quantities including centre of mass and moment of inertia. Distributions of classical point masses provide a representation of nonseparability in optical fields, and the correspondence extends to quantum states of two qubits. These mappings offer an intuitive way to examine entanglement and the shared mathematical structure of mechanics, classical optics and quantum physics.

Active particles which are self-propelled by converting energy into mechanical motion represent an expanding research realm in physics and chemistry. For micron-sized particles moving in a liquid (``microswimmers''), most of the basic features have been described by using the model of overdamped active Brownian motion [1]. However, for macroscopic particles or microparticles moving in a gas, inertial effects become relevant such that the dynamics is underdamped. Therefore, recently, active particles with inertia have been described by extending the active Brownian motion model to active Langev