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The size dependent electronic structure and separate spin and orbital magnetic moments of free Co$_n^+$ ($n = 4\;\textrm{-}\;9$) cluster ions have been investigated by x-ray absorption and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy in a…

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We present a simple and general method for construction of localized orbitals to describe electronic structure of extended periodic metals and insulators as well as confined systems. Spatial decay of these orbitals is found to exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Joydeep Bhattacharjee , Umesh V Waghmare

We calculate analytically the spin-orbital decomposition of the angular momentum using completely non-paraxial fields that have certain degree of linkage of electric and magnetic lines. The split of the angular momentum into spin-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 M Arrayás , J L Trueba

We construct a semiclassical theory for electrons in a non-Hermitian periodic system subject to perturbations varying slowly in space and time. We derive the energy of the wavepacket to first order in the gradients of the perturbations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bar Alon , Moshe Goldstein , Roni Ilan

A method for interpreting discontinuities of the twist potential of vacuum stationary axisymmetric solutions of Einstein's equations is introduced. Surface densities for the angular momentum of the source can be constructed after solving a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Fernandez-Jambrina , F. J. Chinea

We apply a computationally efficient technique to validate the global structure of the pulsar magnetosphere. In this first of a series of studies, a 3D, computationally intensive, implicit Crank-Nicolson finite-difference scheme is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Sushilkumar Sreekumar , Eric M. Schlegel

Spin-orbit coupled materials have attracted revived prominent research interest as of late, especially due their direct connection with topological notions. Arguably, a hallmark of this pursuit is formed by the concept of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Robert-Jan Slager

In this review article, we survey the relatively new theory of orbital magnetization in solids-often referred to as the "modern theory of orbital magnetization"-and its applications. Surprisingly, while the calculation of the orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 T. Thonhauser

We consider the mechanical equilibrium and stability of matter trapped in the magnetosphere of a rapidly rotating star. Assuming a dipolar magnetic field and arbitrary inclination of the magnetic axis with respect to the axis of rotation we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Preuss , M. Schuessler , V. Holzwarth , S. K. Solanki

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital angular momentum were generated experimentally [{\it Optica} {\bf 6}, 1547 (2019); {\it Nat. Photon.} {\bf 14}, 350 (2020)]. However, an accurate…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Over the last century Bohr van Leuween theorem attracted the notice of physicists. The theorem states about the absence of magnetization in classical systems in thermal equilibrium. In this paper, we discuss about fluctuations of magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-07 P. S. Pal , Arnab Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

We present a quantitative microscopic theory of the disorder- and phonon-induced coupling between surface and bulk states in topological insulator (TI) films. We find a simple structure for the surface-to-bulk scattering matrix elements and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-20 Kush Saha , Ion Garate

We study polar orbitopes, i.e. convex hulls of orbits of a polar representation of a compact Lie group. The face structure is studied by means of the gradient momentum map and it is shown that every face is exposed and is again a polar…

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We investigate the bulk orbital angular momentum in a two-dimensional time-reversal broken topological superconductor with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, the Zeeman interaction, and the $s$-wave pairing potential. Prior to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-08 Atsuo Shitade , Yuki Nagai

An oblique pulsar magnetosphere with a plasma conductivity is studied by using a pseudo-spectral method. In the pseudo-spectral method, the time-dependent Maxwell equations are solved, both electric and magnetic fields are expanded in terms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Gang Cao , Li Zhang , Sineng Sun

We apply a microscopic theory of polarization and magnetization to crystalline insulators at zero temperature and consider the orbital electronic contribution of the linear response to spatially varying, time-dependent electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Perry T. Mahon , J. E. Sipe

Multiorbital correlated materials are often on the verge of multiple electronic phases (metallic, insulating, super- conducting, charge and orbitally ordered), which can be explored and controlled by small changes of the external…

The fundamental assumptions of the adiabatic theory do not apply in presence of sharp field gradients as well as in presence of well developed magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. For this reason in such conditions the magnetic moment $\mu$ is…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Dalena , A. Greco , A. F. Rappazzo , R. L. Mace , W. H. Matthaeus

We show that the orbital magneto-electric effect (OME) -- the generation of a steady-state orbital angular momentum density -- is partly the result of a nonequilibrium dipole moment generated via Zitterbewegung and proportional to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 James H. Cullen , Daniel P. Arovas , Roberto Raimondi , Dimitrie Culcer

The nonequilibrium Green's function method is used to study the ballistic transport in metallic carbon nanotubes when a current is injected from the electrodes with finite bias voltages. We reveal, both analytically and numerically, that…

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