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Orbital angular momentum has recently emerged as an important carrier of angular momentum in solids, offering new pathways for spin orbitronic functionality beyond conventional spin transport. Here, we investigate the orbital Hall effect…

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Quantized vortices carry the angular momentum in rotating superfluids, and are key to the phenomenon of quantum turbulence. Advances in ultra-cold atom technology enable quantum turbulence to be studied in regimes with both experimental and…

We experimentally demonstrate orbiting of isotropic, dielectric microparticles around an optical nanofiber that guides elliptically polarized fundamental modes. The driving transverse radiation force appears in the evanescent…

The linear polarization of thermal dust emission provides a powerful tool to probe interstellar and circumstellar magnetic fields, because aspherical grains tend to align themselves with magnetic field lines. While the Radiative Alignment…

The fundamental mode of rotation in quantum fluids is given by a vortex, whose quantized value yields the orbital angular momentum (OAM) per particle. If the vortex is displaced (off-centered) from the reference point for rotation, the…

An orbital current can be generated whenever an object has a translational and rotational degree of freedom. In condensed matter physics, intra-atomic contributions to the transverse orbital transport, labeled orbital Hall effect, rely on…

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We demonstrate analytically that, in toroidal plasmas, scattering by drift wave turbulence could lead to appreciable damping of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes via generation of short-wavelength electron Landau damped kinetic Alfven waves. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Liu Chen , Zhiyong Qiu , Fulvio Zonca

The yrast states of transitional nuclei are described as quadrupole waves running over the nuclear surface, which we call tidal waves. In contrast to a rotor, which generates angular momentum by increasing the angular velocity at…

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Using orbital angular momentum (OAM) currents in nanoelectronics, for example, for magnetization manipulation via spin-orbit torque (SOT), represents a growing field known as "spin-orbitronics". Here, using the density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Poonam Kumari , Cyrille Barreteau , Alexander Smogunov

Collisionless physics primarily determines the transport of fusion-born alpha particles in 3D equilibria. Several transport mechanisms have been implicated in stellarator configurations, including stochastic diffusion due to class…

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Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital dynamics, which governs the angular momentum transfer from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Hiroki Hayashi , Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Tenghua Gao , Satoshi Haku , Yuriy Mokrousov , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kazuya Ando

Following the very recent experimental realisation of electron vortices, we consider their interaction with matter, in particular the transfer of orbital angular momentum in the context of electron energy loss spectroscopy, and the recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sophia Lloyd , Mohamed Babiker , Jun Yuan

A spherical torus (ST) p B11 plasma model that satisfies multi-magnetofluid force balance is developed, which includes small fractions of suprathermal ions with temperatures around 0.5 MeV and suprathermal electrons in the MeV range.…

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Acoustic radiation force and torque arising from wave scattering are able to translate and rotate matter without contact. However, the existing research mainly focused on manipulating simple symmetrical geometries, neglecting the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Tianquan Tang , Lixi Huang

Relativistic magnetic turbulence has been proposed as a process for producing nonthermal particles in high-energy astrophysics. Particle energization may be contributed by both magnetic reconnection and turbulent fluctuations, but their…

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A discrete and exact algorithm for obtaining planetary systems is derived in a recent article (Eur. Phys. J. Plus 2022, 137:99). Here the algorithm is used to obtain planetary systems with forces different from the Newtonian inverse square…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Søren Toxvaerd

Doppler cooling is a widely used technique to laser cool atoms and nanoparticles exploiting the Doppler shift involved in translational transformations. The rotational Doppler effect arising from rotational coordinate transformations should…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-22 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu , F. Javier García de Abajo

Alpha channeling uses waves to extract hot ash from a fusion plasma, while transferring energy from the ash to the wave. Intriguingly, it has been proposed that the extraction of this charged ash could create a radial electric field,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Ian E. Ochs , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We investigate the emission of rotating magnetized neutron stars due to the acceleration and radiation of particles in the relativistic wind and in the magnetotail of the star. We consider that the charged particles are accelerated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Romanova , G. A. Chulsky , R. V. E. Lovelace

We develop the theory of transportation and localization of a transparent dielectric spherical particle with the gradient forces in the interference field of orthogonally directed standing laser waves $E_z (\cos kz)$ and $E_x (\cos kx)$. It…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-08 A. A. Afanas'ev , V. M. Volkov , Yu. A. Kurochkin , D. V. Novitsky