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We investigate the propagation of optical vector vortices of slow light in a coherently prepared four-level tripod atomic system. The vector vortex consists of superposed pulse pairs with opposite circular polarizations and orbital angular…

Modern information technologies rely on controlling the flow of electrons through their charge and spin. A rapidly emerging alternative is to use the orbital motion of electrons, the way they circulate around atomic sites as a new carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Sobhan Subhra Mishra , Ranjan Singh

We propose an orbital angular momentum (OAM) quantum holography scheme based on multi-mode Bessel-Gaussian (MBG) beams. Entangled photon pairs are generated through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process, and the axis prism…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Jinjin Li , Chaoying Zhao

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 present a scheme to generate three particle hyper-entanglement utilizing polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a photon. We show that the generated state can be used to teleport a two-qubit state described by the…

In this work we demonstrate the existence of orbital angular momentum (OAM) bright and dark supermodes in a three-evanescently coupled cylindrical waveguides system. Bright and dark supermodes are characterized by their coupling and…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 A. Turpin , G. Pelegrí , J. Polo , J. Mompart , V. Ahufinger

Quantum teleportation is a useful quantum information technology to transmit quantum states between different degrees of freedom. We here report a quantum state transfer experiment in the linear optical system, transferring a single photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Shihao Ru , Min An , Yu Yang , Rui Qu , Feiran Wang , Yunlong Wang , Pei Zhang , Fuli Li

The frequency and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are independent physical properties of light that both offer unbounded degrees of freedom. However, creating, processing, and detecting high-dimensional OAM states have been a pivot and…

We present an approach for measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light tailored towards applications in spectroscopy and non-integer OAM values. It is based on the OAM sorting method (Berkhout et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153601…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bernd Berger , Marius Kahlert , Daniel Schmidt , Marc Aßmann

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) at radio frequency (RF) has attracted more and more attention as a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal OAM modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectral efficiency (SE). However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zhengjuan Tian , Rui Chen , Wen-Xuan Long , Hong Zhou , Marco Moretti

We present a state transfer protocol that is mathematically equivalent to quantum teleportation, but uses classical nonseparability instead of quantum entanglement. In our implementation we take advantage of nonseparability among three…

Production and manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of coherent soft x-ray beams is demonstrated utilizing consecutive diffractive optics. OAM addition is observed upon passing the beam through consecutive fork gratings. The OAM…

Photoassociation of ultracold atoms is shown to lead to alignment of the product molecules along the excitation laser polarization axis. We theoretically investigate pulsed photoassociation of $^{87}Rb$ atoms into a specific weakly-bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 S. Kallush , J. L. Carini , P. L. Gould , R. Kosloff

We show that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a light field can be thermalized in a nonlinear cylindrical multimode optical waveguide. We find, that upon thermal equilibrium, the maximization of the optical entropy leads to a…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an attractive degree of freedom for funda- mentals studies in quantum mechanics. In addition, the discrete unbounded state-space of OAM has been used to enhance classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Mohammad Mirhosseini , Mehul Malik , Zhimin Shi , Robert W. Boyd

We theoretically investigate the light scattering of the super- and subradiant states which can be prepared by the excitation of a single photon which carries an orbital angular momentum (OAM).\ With this helical phase imprinted on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 H. H. Jen , M. -S. Chang , Y. -C. Chen

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

Recent technological advances allowed the coherent optical manipulation of high-energy electron wavepackets with attosecond precision. Here we theoretically investigate the collision of optically-modulated pulsed electron beams with atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yuya Morimoto , Peter Hommelhoff , Lars Bojer Madsen

We present here a compact scheme for the generation of high-dimensional states of light encoded in the transverse path variable of photons that carry orbital angular momentum. We use a programmable spatial light modulator in phase…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-12 D. Pabón , S. Ledesma , L. Rebón

The large number of available orbital angular momentum (OAM) states of photons provides a unique resource for many important applications in quantum information and optical communications. However, conventional OAM switching devices usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou