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We address the possibility of using even/odd states of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons for the quantum information tasks. Single photon qubit states and two photon entangled states in even/odd basis of OAM are considered. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Chithrabhanu Perumangatt , Nijil Lal , Ali Anwar , Salla Gangi Reddy , R. P. Singh

A classical circularly polarized electromagnetic wave carries angular momentum, and represents the classical limit of a photon, which carries quantized spin. It is shown that a very similar picture of a circularly polarized coherent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

The identification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a fundamental property of a beam of light nearly twenty-five years ago has led to an extensive body of research around this topic. The possibility that single photons can carry OAM has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

The evolution of an entangled photon state propagating through a turbulent atmosphere is formulated in terms of a set of coupled first order differential equations, by using an infinitesimal propagation approach. The orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-29 Filippus S. Roux

The concept of correlated two-photon spiral imaging is introduced. We begin by analyzing the joint orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum of correlated photon pairs. The mutual information carried by the photon pairs is evaluated, and it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

On-chip photon sources carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are in demand for high-capacity optical information processing in both classical and quantum regimes. However, currently-exploited integrated OAM sources have been primarily…

Duality in the entanglement of identical particles manifests that entanglement in only one variable can be revealed at a time. We demonstrate this using polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) variables of indistinguishable photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nijil Lal , Sarika Mishra , Anju Rani , Anindya Banerji , Chithrabhanu Perumangattu , R. P. Singh

We present an approach for measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light tailored towards applications in spectroscopy and non-integer OAM values. It is based on the OAM sorting method (Berkhout et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153601…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bernd Berger , Marius Kahlert , Daniel Schmidt , Marc Aßmann

Light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) are convenient carriers of quantum information. They can be also used for imparting rotational motion to particles and provide high resolution in imaging. Due to the conservation of OAM in…

An ongoing debate surrounding the intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) attributed to spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) light pulses has raised the energy and photon-density centroids as two alternative frameworks to define…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Titouan Gadeyne , Thierry Ruchon

In this letter, we investigate the effect of orbital angular momentum (OAM) on elastic photon-photon scattering in vacuum for the first time. We define exact solutions to the vacuum electro-magnetic wave equation which carry OAM. Using…

Spin angular momentum of a photon corresponds to a polarisation degree of freedom of lights, and such that various polarisation properties are coming from macroscopic manifestation of quantum-mechanical properties of lights. An orbital…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shinichi Saito

The function to measure orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution of vortex light is essential for OAM applications. Although there are lots of works to measure OAM modes, it is difficult to measure the power distribution of different OAM…

Many atomic processes result in the emission of photons. Analysis of the properties of emitted photons, such as energy and angular distribution as well as polarization, is regarded as a powerful tool for gaining more insight into the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 V. A. Zaytsev , A. S. Surzhykov , V. M. Shabaev , Th. Stöhlker

Photons are elementary particles of lights, which have both spin and orbital angular momentum as internal degrees of freedom. Nature of spin is known as polarisation, which is widely used for sunglasses, liquid-crystal displays,…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-06 Shinichi Saito

Motivated by recent progress in the generation of optical spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs), there is a theoretical discussion about the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by such pulses. Two recent works [K. Y. Bliokh,…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-20 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Single photons with helical phase structures may carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and their entanglement is important for quantum information science and fundamental tests of quantum theory. Because there is no…

Intense laser ionization expands Einstein's photoelectric effect rules giving a wealth of phenomena widely studied over the last decades. In all cases, so far, photons were assumed to carry one unit of angular momentum. However it is now…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 A. Picón , J. Mompart , J. R. Vázquez de Aldana , L. Plaja , G. F. Calvo , L. Roso

High-dimensional quantum systems offer many advantages over low-dimensional quantum systems. Meanwhile, unitary transformations on quantum states are important parts in various quantum information tasks, whereas they become technically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Dong-Xu Chen , Yunlong Wang , Feiran Wang , Jun-Long Zhao , Chui-Ping Yang

A matrix representation is introduced for stationary beam-like light fields that allows for simultaneous treatment of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the second-order state of spatial coherence. This Coherence-OAM matrix is a…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 Olga Korotkova , Greg Gbur