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We show that optical beams propagating in transversally disordered materials exhibit a spin Hall effect and a spin-to-orbital conversion of angular momentum as they deviate from paraxiality. We theoretically describe these phenomena on the…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-31 Tamara Bardon-Brun , Dominique Delande , Nicolas Cherroret

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

In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions the colliding system posses a huge orbital angular momentum in the direction opposite to the normal of the reaction plane. Due to the spin-orbit coupling in strong interaction, such huge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

The twist phase of random light represents a nontrivial two-point phase, endowing the field with orbital angular momentum. Although the mutual transition of the spin and orbit angular momenta of coherent light has been revealed, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Benli Li , Yahong Chen , Weimin Deng , Tongbiao Wang , Lipeng Wan , Tianbao Yu

The spin-orbit interaction of light is a crucial concept for understanding the electromagnetic properties of a material and realizing the spin-controlled manipulation of optical fields. Achieving these goals requires a complete description…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-08 Longlong Feng , Qianfan Wu

For paraxial and non-paraxial light, numerous measures of electromagnetic attribute are expressible in terms of photon annihilation and creation. Accordingly, energy, angular momentum and chirality measures acquire a consistent…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Matt M. Coles , David L. Andrews

We employ an atomic spin model and present a systematic investigation from a single spin to a large system of over a million spins. To have an efficient spin switching, the electron initial momentum direction must closely follow the spin's…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-11 G. P. Zhang , Mitsuko Murakami

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

We introduce a new class of optical micromotors driven by the spin-orbit interaction of light and spin-driven fluid flows leading to simultaneous rotation and revolution of the micromotors. The micromotors are essentially birefringent…

Photons carry linear momentum, and spin angular momentum when circularly or elliptically polarized. During light-matter interaction, transfer of linear momentum leads to optical forces, while angular momentum transfer induces optical…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-16 Li He , Huan Li , Mo Li

The spin-orbit interaction in a focused-reflected beam of light results in spatially non-uniform polarization in the beam cross-section due to the superposition of orthogonal field components and polarization-dependent interface reflection…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Upasana Baishya , Nirmal K. Viswanathan

This paper is devoted to study the propagation of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum in optically anisotropic media. We first review some properties of homogeneous anisotropic media, and describe how the paraxial formalism is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Antonio Picón , Albert Benseny , Jordi Mompart , Gabriel F. Calvo

The effect of spin-orbit interaction on electron transport properties of a cross-junction structure is studied. It is shown that it results in spin polarization of left and right outgoing electron waves. Consequently, incoming electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. N. Bulgakov , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Sadreev , P. Středa , P. Šeba

Besides a linear momentum, optical fields carry an angular momentum (AM), which have two intrinsic components: one is spin angular momentum (SAM) related to the polarization state of the field, and the other is orbital angular momentum…

In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions, the colliding system possesses a huge orbital angular momentum along the normal direction of the reaction plane. Due to the spin orbit interaction in the system, such a huge orbital angular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Zuo-tang Liang

Partially gold coated 90 degree glass wedges and a semi - infinite slit in a thin film of gold ending in a conducting nano-junction serve as samples to investigate the transfer of photon spin to electron orbital angular momentum. These…

Optical vortex beams are a type of topological light characterized by their inherent orbital angular momentum, leading to the propagation of a spiral-shaped wavefront. In this study, we focus on two-dimensional electrons with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Shunki Yamamoto , Masahiro Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto , Takeshi Mizushima

It is known that internal energy flow in a light beam can be divided into the orbital flow, associated with the macroscopic energy redistribution within the beam, and the spin flow originating from instantaneous rotation of the field…

Spin angular momentum, an elementary dynamical property of classical electromagnetic fields, plays an important role in spin-orbit and light-matter interactions, especially in near-field optics. The research on optical spins has led to the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-15 Peng Shi , Heng Li , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

Structured light has emerged as an important tool to interrogate and manipulate matter at micron and sub-micron scale. One form of structured light is an optical vortex beam. The helical wavefront of these vortices carry orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-08 G. V. Pavan Kumar