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  1. Nov 2023
    1. It follows that on thehypersurface M the Rn -valued n − 1-form ∗dx is equal to the product of n and ascalar n − 1-form ν: ∗dx  nν.

      How does that follow?

    2. If this frame is positively,resp. negatively, oriented

      Positively or negatively oriented with respect to what? The standard basis? This question comes into play because you cannot compare to the original frame if V and W are different vector spaces.

    3. This defines an n-form ω on M and we must show that ω  µM

      What's different about this definition? It seems like the burden is not to show that they are equal, but rather that it is indeed an n-form?

    4. he support of α is defined as the set of all points x in M with theproperty that for every open ball B around x there is a y ∈ B ∩ M such that αy , 0

      Why do we have to play such tricks?

    5. [n, e1, e2, . . . , eN−1; 1)  [e1, e2, . . . , eN ; 1].

      weird to talk about orientations of different dimensions. The change of basis matrix A is no longer invertible, no longer square, and no longer has a determinant.

      How does this work out?

    6. Choose ε  ±1 such that (n(x), b1, b2, . . . , bn ; ε) is a positively orientedframe of RN .

      positively oriented with respect to the standard basis?

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    1. We use a 1550 nm laser diode(SFL1550S, Thorlabs) and a super luminescent light emitting diode(SLED; DL-CS5169A, Denslight) for the generation of ps opticalpulses.

      Interesting. So they tried both sources.

    2. in the pulsed Sagnac interfer-ometer, lasers with long coherence lengths perform well

      They mean that it would have been long coherence, had it not been pulsed?

    3. ejects all the reciprocal effects, such as linear birefringence andoptical activity unlike conventional MOKE microscopy

      Oh?? Why does conventional MOKE see these?

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  2. Oct 2023
    1. Continuous” means that for every x ∈ M there exists a localparametrization ψ : U → RN of M at x with the property that Dψ(t) : Rn → Tψ(t) Mpreserves the orientation for all t ∈ U.

      Mobius strip would satisfy this. However, it breaks down globally.

    2. consisting of a frame(b1, b2, . . . , bn ) together with a sign ε  ±1.

      isn't this redundant. Just require that one pick a frame that's positive.

    3. For ak-form α ∈ Ωk (V) define the pullback φ∗ (α) ∈ Ωk (U) by

      Is this really a deffinition, or should it be derived? Because a pullback should change between coordinates in a meaningful way. Like we shouldn't have the freedom to define this, because it must be consistent in some way with natural law.

    4. There is a nice way to construct a basis of the vector space Ak (V) starting froma basis {b1, . . . , bn } of V

      Seems like this is the answer to your previous question on whether it spans.

    5. useful trick for producing alternating k-multilinear functions startingfrom k covectors µ1, µ2, . . . , µk ∈ V∗

      Is the space of "alternating k-multilinear functions" spanned by the wedge product, or just that the wedge product maps into this space?

    6. which is simply the Jacobi matrix D g of g! (This is the reason that many authorsuse the notation dg for the Jacobi matrix.

      For it to be a jacobi matrix, Dg would have to work for g multi dimensional.

    7. {β1, β2 , . . . , βn } of V∗ is said to be dual to the basis {b1, b2, . . . , bn } ofV

      I remember there being something about dual spaces not having a unique basis, but the dual of the dual does have a natural basis. Can't remember why though.

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    1. A×B=A⊕BA×B=A⊕BA\times B=A\oplus B, but in the case of the product/sum of infinitely many vector spaces they are distinct: ∏iAi≠⨁iAi∏iAi≠⨁iAi\prod_i A_i\neq \bigoplus_i A_i. This wouldn't be something covered in introductory classes. The deep distinction between the two is that one is a category theory product and one is a category theory coproduct

      Wild. I'd like to know what this means.

      e.g. product vs coproduct and Cartesian product vs direct sum.

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    1. that when electrochem-ical water splitting occurs with an anode that accepts prefer-entially one spin owing to CISS, the process is enhanced andthe formation of hydrogen peroxide is diminished. [4

      Why is that? Hydrogen peroxide isn't chiral is it?

    2. Figure 2.

      why does positive voltage and negative voltage have the same effect? Considering that these systems are not symmetric to that flip, because the magnetic tip is only on one side of the sample.

      Also, why does graph c which is supposedly non chiral show a splitting effect still? Is that jsut assumed to be noise?

    3. Third, as in CISS in transmission, alsohere the sign of the preferred spin depends on the direction ofthe molecular dipole,

      Is this what breaks the symmetry that allows you to select spin?

    4. b) Photoelectronpolarization

      Why so noisy? As in you cant tell whether its 70% or 50% polarized from any given run. Also, why is it a negative percentage for all of them?

    5. it is easy to show that “current through a coil” arguments yieldan effect that is lower by many orders of magnitude.

      Where can I find this?

    6. Based on the well-known connectionbetween the direction (cw or ccw) of circularly polarized lightand the spin polarization (up or down) of the excited electrons,

      How was that well known?

    7. ink was finally found in the form of magneto-chiraldichroism, that is, a difference in the magnetic optical activity ofthe two enantiomers of a chiral medium.

      What's different between this and the "magnetically induced optical activity in crystals"?

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    1. t-handed configuration. However, when these crystals were separated manually, he found that they exhibited right and left asymmetry

      how do you separate the crystals manually?

    1. Louis Pasteur was the first to recognize that optical activity arises from the dissymmetric arrangement of atoms in the crystalline structures or in individual molecules of certain compounds.

      How did he know that?

    1. One common metric, a minimal-energy metric for a fixed focal-point intensity [18,104], isequivalent to a focal-point maximization metric under con-straints of fixed energy, as can be shown by comparing theLagrangian functions of each

      That's what we want.

    2. C. The average field valuearound the contour is given by 1/|C| ∫C |ψ(x)|2 dx =ξ † [(1/|C|) ∫C †] ξ ,

      not obvious to me. Shouldn't it be an area integral?

    3. ld to go to zero anywhereand that enforce “concentration” through other charac-teristics of an optical beam. The two properties that weconsider are the full width at half maximum (FWHM)

      Ok. For trapped ions we don't care about that.

    4. G = 0.21 exhibits to our knowledgethe smallest spot size of any theoretical proposal to date

      question is does this apply to imaging? Can you use that meta lens to get 0.21 lambda resolution?

    5. We take the electric field polarized outof the plane, such that ψ can be simplified to a scalarfield solution of the Helmholtz equation

      not WLOG

    6. sub-diffraction-limited solutionswhose input powers scale only polynomially with the spotsize.

      I thought they would normalize this based on input power.

    7. In each case the far-zone bound islarger than that of the near zone or the mid zone, suggest-ing that the far-zone bounds of Eqs. (13) and (14) may beglobal bounds at any distance

      Isn't this logic backwards. Unless the individual aperture types curves in 4a were numerically calculated from the exact equation.

    8. ttern: instead, divide themaximal intensity, Eq. (9), by the intensity of an uncon-strained focused beam (without the zero-field condition),which is simply ψ†1 ψ1 (which conforms to the usual Airydefinition for a circular aperture)

      That's exactly what we want. Seems like the best beam given a circular aperture is an airy pattern???

    9. asis, such as Fourier modes on a circularcontour or spherical harmoni

      By other Fourier modes on a circular contour, I presume they mean a mode around the countour.

      e.g. if the contour is a circle parametrized by theta, the fourier modes are sin(theta) etc.

      Not sure if that's what they mean. Also not sure how that plays into making that constraint.

    10. f light independent of the exit surface, simplyenforcing the condition that the light field comprises prop-agating waves.

      I thought this was already independent?

    11. it will be the lowest-order mode, polarizedalong the μ direction, that is most important in constrain-ing the field.

      What do they mean by that?

    12. aximal intensity of an unconstrained beam wouldsimply focus as much of the effective-current radiation tothe origin, as dictated by the term 0†0 ,

      seems like without the spotsize constraint it would just be the gamma gamma* term.

    13. 6 × 6N matrix, where N is the number of degrees offreedom of the effective currents, †00 is a matrix withrank at most 6,

      Dimensionality isn't obvious to me.

    14. = ξ ††ξ .

      Feels like the wrong contraction. previosly we had g[x,x'] xi[x'], which is like a matrix contraction.

      However now we have xi[x''] g[x,x''] g[x,x'] xi[x'] , which is a different argument arrangment, not in the typical contraction form.

    15. the currents comprise the degrees of freedom deter-mining the beam shape.

      A bit odd, because magnetic currents carry the same information as an electric charge distribution. However magnetic currents seem like they have more degrees of freedom. The resolution is probably that you can't have any arbitrary magnetic current distribution. That means that there aren't really 6 degrees of freedom.

    16. e possibility of sub-diffraction-limited spot sizes without near-field effects was recog-nized in 1952 by Toraldo di Francia [41]; stimulated byresults for highly directive antennas

      Interesting.

    1. As the electron passes through the electric field of the nucleus, a magnetic field is produced in the reference frame of the electron.

      I should be able to calculate this effect in any reference frame. How would I explain this without changing to the electron reference frame?

    1. low spin selectivity or limited stability, andhave difficulties in forming robust spintronic devices5–8.

      Why is a single block of chiral material bad? (like a block of sugar?)

    2. d or exchange interaction with magnetic atoms,thus preserving the time-reversal symmetry

      isn't a spin based effect inherently time reversal symmetry breaking?

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    1. When working with lock-in amplifiers, the input bandwidth is usually small, so the shot noise does not affect the measurements as much.

      as much as what? I presume they mean the previous section, on thermal noise. However that noise also varies proportional to \( \sqrt{\Delta f} \)

    1. Superachromatic Wave Plates

      temperature dependence: "expected to be small within room temperature based on the materials but no data on it" - Tech Support.

    2. each consists of three quartz and three magnesium fluoride (MgF2) plates that are optically cemented to maximize transmission and carefully aligned to minimize the wavelength dependence of the retardance.

      Is a combination of wave plates necessarily a wave plate?

    3. We do not recommend disturbing this retaining ring, as it is likely to affect the optical alignment of the fast axis of the wave plate.

      It wouldn't affect the relative alignment of the 6 internal plates would it?

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  3. Sep 2023
    1. this can be justified by considering that the lattice has acharacteristic length scale

      Do they really mean that it's remapped to another part to the Brillouin zone?

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    1. (ii) Dψ(t) is one-to-one for all t ∈ U;

      Is this language actually ambiguous, or is there a way to tell without knowing that they are talking about the matrix being a one to one matrix, rather than the transform from psi to Dpsi being one to one?

    2. formal linear combination ∑pq1 aq {xq }, which represents a distribution of pointcharges, and the linear combination of vectors ∑pq1 aq xq,

      This says something about what "formal" is.

    3. guage of linear algebra, the k-chains form a vector space with a basisconsisting of the k-cubes

      Seems to imply that overlaping k-cubes must be allowed.

    4. f (t1 , t2) dt2 dt1  − f (t1, t2) dt1 dt2. How can this besquared with formula (5.1)?

      switching the order of integration works because differentials anti commute, but also integrals anti commute.

    5. p∗ (h) det(Dp) ds1 ds2 · · · dsk

      Where did this det(Dp) come from? Is this from normal multivariable, or is this from differential forms?

    6. Although the image c(R) may look very different from the blockR,

      Do we always know that u can be smoothly covered by c(R)? It can't if it requires more than one chart in the atlas.

    7. o by the substitution formula, Theorem B.9,we have ∫c◦p α  ± ∫c α, where the + occurs if p′ > 0 and the − if p′ < 0

      I don't quite follow.

    8. Differentiationand integration are related

      What's the comparative relation to interior vs exterior derivative? because " Integration is not the inverse function to

    9. parametrizations to give a formal definition of the notion of amanifold in Chapter 6.

      I wonder if that's how it's defined in a more abstract sense.

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    1. s a graded algebra.

      Does the word graded here have anything to do with the "graded commutativity"/"alternating property" of differential forms?