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The x-ray vortex optical beam, distinguished by its topological charge and orbital angular momentum, offers new insights in probing complex electronic structures, enhancing material characterization, and advancing high-resolution imaging…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-26 Zhikai Zhou , Yin Kang , Weishi Wan , Chao Feng

The propagation of electron beams carrying angular momentum in crystals is studied using a multislice approach for the model system Fe. It is found that the vortex beam is distorted strongly due to elastic scattering. Consequently, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-09 Stefan Löffler , Peter Schattschneider

We report the experimental discovery of orbital vortex lines in the three-dimensional (3D) band structure of a topological semimetal. Combining linear and circular dichroism in soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission (SX-ARPES) with…

Spatiotemporal vortex pulses are wave packets that carry transverse orbital angular momentum, exhibiting exotic structured wavefronts that can twist through space and time. Existing methods to generate these pulses require complex setups…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Zhiyuan Che , Wenzhe Liu , Lei Shi , C. T. Chan , Jian Zi

We propose a reconstruction of vortex beams based on the implementation of quadratic transformations in the orbital angular momentum. The information is encoded in a superposition of Bessel-like nondiffracting beams. The measurement of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , Z. Bouchal , A. B. Klimov , I. Rigas , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

We prove that, under the condition of validity of the Fresnel approximation, diffraction and interference for a wave traveling in the z-direction may be described in terms of the spreading in time of the transverse (x,y)-wave packet. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Giorgio Dillon

We demonstrate the generation of an optical dipole wave suitable for the process of efficiently coupling single quanta of light and matter in free space. We employ a parabolic mirror for the conversion of a transverse beam mode to a focused…

We propose and analyze neutral atom traps generated by vortices imprinted by magnetic field pulse sequences in type-II superconducting disks and rings. We compute the supercurrent distribution and magnetic field resulting from the vortices…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 B. Zhang , M. Siercke , K. S. Chan , M. Beian , M. J. Lim , R. Dumke

When structured light is propagated through the atmosphere, turbulence results in modal scattering and distortions. An extensively studied example is that of light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), where the atmosphere is treated as…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-22 Asher Klug , Isaac Nape , Andrew Forbes

The origin of a vortex structure generated during the shock-plasma interaction is investigated. A two-dimensional model based on the shock refraction mechanism successfully unifies the vortex generation with major co-processes typical for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 A. Markhotok

We propose a scheme for generating two-dimensional turbulence in harmonically trapped atomic condensates with the novelty of controlling the polarization (net rotation) of the turbulence. Our scheme is based on an initial giant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-06 A. Cidrim , F. E. A. dos Santos , L. Galantucci , V. S. Bagnato , C. F. Barenghi

Vortex crystals are geometric arrays of vortices found in various physics fields, owing their regular internal structure to mutual interactions within a spatially confined system. In optics, vortex crystals may form spontaneously within a…

Optomechanical pattern forming instabilities in a cloud of cold atoms lead to self-organized spatial structures of light and atoms. Here, we consider the optomechanical self-structuring of a cold atomic cloud in the presence of a phase…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Giuseppe Baio , Gordon R. M. Robb , Alison M. Yao , Gian-Luca Oppo

The strength of an atom-surface interaction is determined by studying atom diffraction from a rotated material grating. A phasor diagram is developed to interpret why diffraction orders are never completely suppressed when a complex…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander D. Cronin , John D. Perreault

The control of atomic motion through laser cooling has revolutionized quantum technologies, enabling applications ranging from quantum computing to precision metrology. However, the spatial spreading of subrecoil-laser-cooled atoms --…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-20 Soma Shiraki , Eli Barkai , Takuma Akimoto

In this study, we propose a new approach to describing certain macroscopic objects that can arise in a quantum fluid. These objects are formed by means of quantum entanglement from the circular-shaped mesoscale and microscale vortices, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 S. V. Talalov

A pedagogical derivation is presented of the ``fireball'' model of gamma-ray bursts, according to which the observable effects are due to the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a relativistically expanding wind, a ``fireball.'' The main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 E. Waxman

In this paper, we consider the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of optical vertex formed from the radial coherent laser beam array, with the initially well-defined phase distribution. The propagation formula of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Gang Wang , Wei-Wei Zheng , Li-Qin Wang

In recent years, optical vortex beams possessing orbital angular momentum have caught much attention due to their potential for high capacity optical communications. This capability arises from the unbounded topological charges of orbital…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Shumei Chen , Yuan Cai , Guixin Li , Shuang Zhang , Kok Wai Cheah

With the discovery of self-accelerating beams, possibility of obtaining curved light beams in free space has been realized. These special beams paved the way for many new applications as well as the exploration of novel beam types.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Berkay Neşeli , Hamza Kurt , Mirbek Turduev