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Angular momentum is traditionally taught as a (pseudo)vector quantity, tied closely to the cross product. This approach is familiar to experts but challenging for students, and full of subtleties. Here, we present an alternative pedagogical…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-08-21 Steuard Jensen , Jack Poling

Interaction of a stochastic background of gravitational radiation with celestial systems changes their dynamical elements in a random manner and give rise to secular changes in time. In this spirit we study the angular momentum transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. G. Khosroshahi , Y. Sobouti

The flux of angular momentum of electromagnetic field of an arbitrarily moving point charge is investigated. General equations are obtained for the transfer of angular momentum at arbitrary distance from the charge, and corresponding…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Vladimir Epp , Ulyana Guselnikova , Irina Kamenskaya

The supertranslation ambiguity of angular momentum at null infinity creates a technical difficulty in choosing the proper definition for this conserved quantity. As a result, many different approaches are found in the literature. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Szymon Bagiński , Jacek Jezierski

LIGO's successful detection of gravitational waves has revitalized the theoretical understanding of the angular momentum carried away by gravitational radiation. An infinite dimensional supertranslation ambiguity has presented an essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-08 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

Gamma-ray beams with large angular momentum are a very valuable tool to study astrophysical phenomena in a laboratory. We investigate generation of well-collimated $\gamma$-ray beams with a very large orbital angular momentum using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Yue-Yue Chen , Jian-Xing Li , and Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Using the Hamiltonian formulation, we have attempted to obtain the equations of motion of systems with internal angular momentum that are moving with respect to a reference system when subjected to an interaction. This interaction involves…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel Dorado Gonzalez

We propose a discussion of angular momentum and its Euler equation, with the aim of giving a short outline of their history. This outline can be useful for teaching purposes too, to amend some problems that students can have in learning…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

The relativistic angular momentum is introduced as an extension of the non-relativistic analysis of allowed states in the phase space for a quantum particle. The paper shows the conceptual basis of the approach. An interesting feature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastiano Tosto

In this paper we shall define and study the angular momentum-energy space for the classical problem of plane-motions of a particle situated in a potential field of a central force. We shall present the angular momentum-energy space for some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Comanescu

The aim of this communication is to present in a concentrated form the main ideas of a method, developed by the author, for treating strongly nonequilibrium collective phenomena typical of the interaction of radiation with matter, as well…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 V. I. Yukalov

We analyze the collective light scattering by cold atoms in free space of a pump laser beam possessing orbital angular momentum. We derive a set of coupled equations for the atomic motion in which the vacuum-mode field is adiabatically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 A. T. Gisbert , N. Piovella , G. R. M. Robb , D. G. McLellan

Variable mass systems are a classic example of open systems in classical mechanics. The reaction forces due to mass variation propel ships, balloons, and rockets. Unlike free constant mass systems, the angular momentum of these systems is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Angadh Nanjangud , Fidelis Eke

We consider a cylindrical metallic magnet that is set into rotation about a horizontal axis by a falling mass. In such a system the magnetic field will cause a radial current which is non-solenoidal. This leads to charge accumulation and a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-08-08 H. S. Mani , Praveen Pathak , Vijay A. Singh

We present a simple formula for the radiated angular momentum based on a spin-weighted spherical harmonic decomposition of the Weyl scalar psi_4 representing outgoing radiation in the Kinnersley tetrad. We test our formula by measuring the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

We investigate the dynamics of angular momentum states for a single ultracold atom trapped in two dimensional systems of sided coupled ring potentials. The symmetries of the system show that tunneling amplitudes between different ring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-23 J. Polo , J. Mompart , V. Ahufinger

In this letter, we review the well known ambiguity in defining angular momentum (and mass dipole) fluxes in general relativity and we reinterpret recent works that resolve the ambiguity by defining invariant charges. We resolve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Reza Javadinezhad , Massimo Porrati

Transport of angular momentum is a long-standing problem in stellar physics which recently became more acute thanks to the observations of the space-borne mission \emph{Kepler}. Indeed, the need for an efficient mechanism able to explain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Kevin Belkacem

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the distribution of the total angular momentum in a relativistic configuration. Using cumulants and generating function formalism this analysis can be reduced to the study of individual subshells…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Michel Poirier , Jean-Christophe Pain

The problem of light waves interaction with charged particles becomes more and more complex starting with the case of plane waves, where the analytical solution is well known, to more natural, though more complicated situations which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Egor Dmitriev , Philipp Korneev