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Engineering single-photon states endowed with Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is a powerful tool for quantum information photonic implementations. Indeed, thanks to its unbounded nature, OAM is suitable to encode qudits allowing a single…

Light beams with an azimuthal phase dependency of $e^{i\ell\phi}$ have helical phase fronts and thus carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), a strictly conserved quantity with propagation. Here, we engineer quasi three-dimensional (3D)…

We show that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of electrons is dynamically induced by circularly polarized phonons. The induced OAM originates from the adiabatic evolution in which electrons acquire Berry phase formulated in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Dapeng Yao , Dongwook Go , Yuriy Mokrousov , Shuichi Murakami

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM), as an important degree of freedom of light, has been attracted extensive attention, due to its intrinsic feature of natural discrete infinite dimension. Manipulation of OAM spectra is crucial for many…

Vortex light, a unique optical field that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a detailed theoretical analysis of OAM transfer from the input field to the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fan Meng , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

The potential scattering of electrons carrying non--zero quanta of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) is studied in a framework of the generalized Born approximation, developed in our recent paper by Karlovets \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. A.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 D. V. Karlovets , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo , A. Surzhykov

We present an analysis of the orbital Hall effect (OHE) in a strip geometry and derive a formula for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) accumulation at the edges. The result is expressed in terms of band structure parameters and scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Egor I. Kiselev , Benoît Douçot , Roderich Moessner

The prevailing notion is that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of an optical vortex can only be transferred to the internal degrees of freedom (i.e. electronic motion) of materials through electric quadrupole and higher-order multipole…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kayn A. Forbes

Establishing and approaching the fundamental limit of orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing are necessary and increasingly urgent for current multiple-input multiple-output research. In this work, we elaborate the fundamental limit in…

We review the theory for photon-photon scattering in vacuum, and some of the proposals for its experimental search, including the results of our recent works on the subject. We then describe a very simple and sensitive proposal of an…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniele Tommasini , Albert Ferrando , Humberto Michinel , Marcos Seco

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…

It is shown that an electron-neutrino beam, propagating in a background plasma, can be decomposed into orbital momentum (OAM) states, similar to the OAM photon states. Coupling between different OAM neutrino states, in the presence of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 J. T. Mendonça , B. Thidé

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light possesses in addition to its usual helicity ($s=\pm \hbar$, depending on its circular polarization) an orbital angular momentum $l$. This means that in principle one can transfer more than a single…

We present a general theory of spin-to-orbital angular momentum (AM) conversion of light in focusing, scattering, and imaging optical systems. Our theory employs universal geometric transformations of nonparaxial optical fields in such…

Vortex $\gamma$ photons with intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM) possess a wealth of applications in various fields, e.g.-strong-laser physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics-yet their generation remains unsettled.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-19 Mamutjan Ababekri , Ren-Tong Guo , Feng Wan , B. Qiao , Zhongpeng Li , Chong Lv , Bo Zhang , Weimin Zhou , Yuqiu Gu , Jian-Xing Li

We use astigmatic transformations to characterize two-dimensional superpositions of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) states in laser beams. We propose two methods for doing this, both relying only on astigmatic transformations, viewed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 B. Pinheiro da Silva , D. S. Tasca , E. F. Galvão , A. Z. Khoury

We demonstrate the coherent transfer of the orbital angular momentum of a photon to an atom in quantized units of hbar, using a 2-photon stimulated Raman process with Laguerre-Gaussian beams to generate an atomic vortex state in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. F. Andersen , C. Ryu , Pierre Clade , V. Natarajan , A. Vaziri , K. Helmerson , W. D. Phillips

We demonstrated that by using a pump field with non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the polarization self-rotation squeezing process it is possible to generate a squeezed vacuum optical field with the matching OAM. We found a similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Mi Zhang , Joseph Soultanis , Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

It is well known that reflection of a Gaussian light beam ($\text{TEM}_{00}$) by a planar dielectric interface leads to four beam shifts when compared to the geometrical-optics prediction. These are the spatial Goos-H\"{a}nchen (GH) shift,…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Merano , N. Hermosa , A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

In this article we investigate the orbital angular momentum spectrum of photons produced in parametric down conversion process. We study how the transverse profile of the pump mode affects the spectrum as compared to a gaussian pump beam.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Anindya Banerji , Ali Anwar , Hrushikesh Sable , Nijil Lal , Ravindra P. Singh