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Engineering local angular momentum of structured light fields in real space enables unprecedented applications in many fields, in particular for the realization of unidirectional robust transport in topological photonic crystals with…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-19 Wei-Min Deng , Xiao-Dong Chen , Fu-Li Zhao , Jian-Wen Dong

We study the effect of focusing of the radially and azimuthally polarized vector beams on the spin angular momentum (SAM) density and Poynting vector of scattered waves from a Mie particle. Remarkably, the study reveals that the SAM density…

Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices (STOVs) are structured electromagnetic fields propagating in free space with phase singularities in the space-time domain. Depending on the tilt of the helical phase front, STOVs can carry both longitudinal…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-26 Pronoy Das , Sathwik Bharadwaj , Zubin Jacob

We report the first study on the optical force exerted by an evanescent wave on a small sphere with both electric and magnetic response to the incident field, immersed in an arbitrary nondissipative medium. New expressions and effects from…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-26 M. Nieto-Vesperinas , J. J. Saenz

The motion of a particle with a spin in spherical harmonic oscillator potential with spin-orbit interaction is studied. We have focus our attention on spatial motion of wave packets, giving a description complementary to motion of spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Rozmej , R. Arvieu

The propagation of an electrostatic wave in a three-component e-p-I astrophysical quantum plasma in a rotating frame has been studied, taking into account the particle spin, Fermi pressure, and quantum Bohm potential. Spin polarization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Atherv Saxena , Punit Kumar

We show that when an electron or photon propagates in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide, it experiences both a zitterbewegung effect and a spin-orbit interaction leading to identical propagation dynamics for both particles. Applying a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. C. Leary , Karl H. Smith

Vortex, the winding of a vector field in two dimensions, has its core the field singularity and its topological charge defined by the quantized winding angle of the vector field. Vortices are one of the most fundamental topological…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Yiwen Zhang , Ang Chen , Wenzhe Liu , Chia Wei Hsu , Fang Guan , Xiaohan Liu , Lei Shi , Ling Lu , Jian Zi

Superluminal phenomena have been reported in many experiments of electromagnetic wave propagation, where the superluminal behaviors of evanescent waves are the most interesting ones with the important physical significances. Consider that…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Y. Wang , C. D. Xiong

We study special relativistic effects on the entanglement between either spins or momenta of composite quantum systems of two spin-1/2 massive particles, either indistinguishable or distinguishable, in inertial reference frames in relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 C. Cafaro , S. Capozziello , S. Mancini

Light beams with azimuthal phase dependence [$exp(i \ell\phi)$] carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) which differs fundamentally from spin angular momentum (SAM) associated with polarization. Striking difference between the two momenta is…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ahmed H. Dorrah , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Mo Mojahedi

We investigate the influence of a light beam carrying an orbital angular momentum on the current density of an electron wave packet in a semiconductor stripe. It is shown that due to the photo-induced torque the electron density can be…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-19 J. Waetzel , A. S. Moskalenko , J. Berakdar

The interaction between a quantum particle's spin angular momentum and its orbital angular momentum is ubiquitous in nature. In optics, the spin-orbit optical phenomenon is closely related with the light-matter interaction and has been of…

A reasonable explanation of the confounding wave-particle duality of matter is presented in terms of the reality of the wave nature of a particle. In this view a quantum particle is an objectively real wave packet consisting of irregular…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Mani Bhaumik

An electron propagating through a solid carries spin angular momentum in addition to its mass and charge. Of late there has been considerable interest in developing electronic devices based on the transport of spin, which offer potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Weber , N. Gedik , J. E. Moore , J. Orenstein , Jason Stephens , D. D. Awschalom

We demonstrate that spin-orbit coupled states are generated in neutral magnetic spin 1/2 particles travelling through an electric field. The quantization axis of the orbital angular momentum is parallel to the electric field, hence both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Niels Geerits , Stephan Sponar

Spin-orbital coupling and interaction as intrinsic light fields characteristics have been extensively studied. Previous studies involve the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried by circular polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jian Chen , Lihua Yu , Chenhao Wan , Qiwen Zhan

A spin wave is the disturbance of intrinsic spin order in magnetic materials. In this paper, a spin wave in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is obtained based on the assumption that the spin wave maintains its shape while it propagates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Zhiwei Sun , Jingrun Chen

Twisted gravitational waves (TGWs) are nonplanar waves with twisted rays that move along a fixed direction in space. We study further the physical characteristics of a recent class of Ricci-flat solutions of general relativity representing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Donato Bini , Carmen Chicone , Bahram Mashhoon , Kjell Rosquist

The intrinsic fluctuations of electron spins in semiconductors and atomic vapors generate a small, randomly-varying "spin noise" that can be detected by sensitive optical methods such as Faraday rotation. Recent studies have demonstrated…