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Entropic Response of Polarization Dynamics in Nonlinear Multimode Optical Systems

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Abstract

We show that the Hamiltonian “energy” of a nonlinear multimoded optical system involving two circular polarizations always flows from a hotter to a colder arrangement– as expected from the second law of thermodynamics.

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