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Vortex electrons, - freely propagating electrons whose wavefunction has helical wavefronts, - could become a novel tool in the physics of electromagnetic radiation. They carry a non-zero intrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) $\ell$ with…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-13 Igor P. Ivanov , Dmitry V. Karlovets

Free electrons can efficiently absorb or emit plasmons excited in a thin conductor, giving rise to multiple energy peaks in the transmitted electron spectra separated by multiples of the plasmon energy. When the plasmons are chiral, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Wei Cai , Ori Reinhardt , Ido Kaminer , F. Javier García de Abajo

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have led to stunning applications in various fields from quantum information to microscopy. In this letter, we examine OAM from the recently discovered high-harmonic generation (HHG) in…

We calculate the relative amplitude of orbital angular momentum (OAM) entangled photon pairs from the spontaneous parametric down conversion. The results show that the amplitude depends on both the two Laguerre indices l, p. We also discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xi-Feng Ren , Guo-Ping Guo , Bo Yu , Jian Li , Guang-Can Guo

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…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), due to its theoretically orthogonal and unbounded helical phase index, has been utilized as an independent physical degree of freedom for ultrahigh-capacity information encryption. However, the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-29 Feiyang Shen , Weiwen Fan , Yong Zhang , Yuping Chen , Xianfeng Chen

A focusing system such as a single lens or a spherical mirror imparts intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) to spatiotemporal (ST) coupled fields the ST intensity distribution of which presents ST covariance. This fact may…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-28 Miguel A. Porras , Spencer W. Jolly

We reveal for the first time a direct relationship between the diffraction of optical beams and their carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). We experimentally demonstrate a novel phenomenon that the anisotropic diffraction can be induced…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-17 Guo Liang , Huicong Zhang , Lei Fang , Qian Shou , Wei Hu , Qi Guo

Using spontaneous parametric down conversion as a source of entangled photon pairs, correlations are measured between the orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a target beam (which contains an unknown object) and that in an empty reference…

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has great potential in enhancing the information channel capacity in both classical and quantum optical communications. Long distance optical communication requires the wavelengths of light are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Dong-Sheng Ding , Wei Zhang , Shuai Shi , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

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

The emergence of an orbital angular momentum (OAM) response to a charge current holds promise for technological applications, allowing electrical control of magnetization dynamics. Often, the OAM current is invoked in explaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Niels Henrik Aase , Erik Wegner Hodt , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Asle Sudbø , Jacob Linder

We investigate absorption and scattering of structured light by atoms, treating the photon and the atomic center of mass as spatially localized wave packets. We show that vortex photons can transfer orbital angular momentum (OAM) to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 I. Pavlov , A. Chaikovskaia , D. Karlovets

We explore the opportunities of using electron scattering by screened Coulomb potential as a tool to retrieve properties of the relativistic vortex beams of electrons, such as their transverse momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM). We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 V. K. Ivanov , A. D. Chaikovskaia , D. V. Karlovets

In this work, an explicit formula is deduced for identifying the orbital angular moment (OAM) of vectorial vortex with space-variant state of polarization (SOP). Different to scalar vortex, the OAM of vectorial vortex can be attributed to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-30 Dengke Zhang , Xue Feng , Kaiyu Cui , Fang Liu , Yidong Huang

The optical Talbot interferometer has been used to explore the topological charges of optical vortices. We recorded the self-imaging of a diffraction grating in the near-field regime with the optical vortex of several topological charges.…

Twisted light beams, or optical vortices, have been used to drive the circular motion of microscopic particles in optical tweezers and have been shown to generate vortices in quantum gases. Recent studies have established that electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Smail Bougouffa

Recently, a new device to measure the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) electronic spectrum after elastic/inelastic scattering in a transmission electron microscope has been introduced. We modified the theoretical framework needed to describe…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Matteo Zanfrognini , Enzo Rotunno , Stefano Frabboni , Alicia Sit , Ebrahim Karimi , Ulrich Hohenester , Vincenzo Grillo

We investigate two-photon entangled states using two important degrees of freedom of the electromagnetic field, namely orbital angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum. For photons propagating in the same direction we apply the idea…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Daniel Bhatti , Joachim von Zanthier , Girish S. Agarwal

A method to temporally tailor the properties of X-ray radiation carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is presented. In simulations, an electron beam is prepared with a temporally modulated micro-bunching structure which, when radiating at…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Morgan , B. W. J. McNeil