The Sagnac effect for spin-$1/2$ particles through local Wigner rotations

Abstract

In this article, we study the Sagnac effect for spin-$1/2$ particles through local Wigner rotations according to the framework developed by [H. Terashima and M. Ueda, Phys. Rev. A 69, 032113 (2004)]. Since the spin of the particle plays the role of a quantum `clock', as the quanton moves in a superposed path it gets entangled with the momentum (or the path), and this will cause the interferometric visibility to drop, since there is a difference in proper time elapsed along the two trajectories, which is known as the Sagnac time delay.

8 pages, 4 figures

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