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We consider the vortex structure of a rapidly rotating trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a co-rotating periodic optical lattice potential. We observe a rich variety of structural phases which reflect the interplay…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Pu , L. O. Baksmaty , S. Yi , N. P. Bigelow

We explore the evolution of vortex light in the presence of gravitational waves (GWs) and demonstrate that the quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM) states can make transitions to other states due to the GWs. The interaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan , Lixiang Chen

Propagation-invariant or non-diffracting optical beams have received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, the pulsed nature of light waves and the structured property of optical media like waveguides are often…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-23 Pierre Béjot , Bertrand Kibler

The nature of light-matter interaction is governed by the spatial-temporal structures of a light field and material wavefunctions. The emergence of the light beam with transverse phase vortex, or equivalently orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

The possibilities to accelerate vortex electrons with orbital angular momentum (OAM) to relativistic energies and to produce vortex ions, protons, and other charged particles crucially depend on whether the OAM is conserved during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Dmitry Karlovets

Waves of various types carry momentum, which is associated with their propagation direction, i.e., the phase gradient. The circulation of the wave momentum density gives rise to orbital angular momentum (AM). Additionally, for waves…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

We consider semiclassical higher-order wave packet solutions of the Schrodinger equation with phase vortices. The vortex line is aligned with the propagation direction, and the wave packet carries a well-defined orbital angular momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Yu. Bliokh , Yu. P. Bliokh , S. Savel'ev , F. Nori

Optical intrinsic angular momentum can be regarded as derivation from spatial superposition of optical vector fields embodied by spinning or and spiraling the electric field vector. We employ vectorial formulation derivation to…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Jian Wang

Spin and orbital angular momenta of light are attractive resources to harness for encoding, and manipulating information, with applications in various quantum photonic technologies. However, to fully harness that potential, we require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Elisabeth Wagner , Mikolaj K. Schmidt , Michael J. Steel , Polina R. Sharapova

Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can find tremendous applications in several fields. In order to apply these particular beams in photonic integrated devices innovative optical elements have been proposed. Here we are…

The recent demonstration of electron vortex beams has opened up the new possibility of studying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the interaction between electron beams and matter. To this aim, methods to analyze the OAM of an electron beam…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-18 Giulio Guzzinati , Laura Clark , Armand Béché , Jo Verbeeck

We confirm the existence of a new bulk medium quasiparticle with transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) and elucidate its physical origin. The tOAM structure is driven by torques induced by the ponderomotive force of the light in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. S. Le , S. W. Hancock , N. Tripathi , H. M. Milchberg

The expression for the total angular momentum carried by a laser optical vortex beam, splits, in the paraxial approximation, into two terms which seem to represent orbital and spin angular momentum respectively. There are, however, two very…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 Elliot Leader

Conventionally, intrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) is associated with phase vortices. However, our investigation into the propagation dynamics of 2D superimposed catastrophe beams, termed cyclone catastrophe beams (CCBs), reveals that…

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 study the formation of off-axis optical vortices propagating inside a double-Raman gain atomic medium. The atoms interact with two weak probe fields as well as two strong pump beams which can carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hamid Reza Hamedi , Julius Ruseckas , Emmanuel Paspalakis , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Various methods have been introduced to measure the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, from fork holograms to Dove prism interferometers, from tilted lenses to triangular apertures - each with their own benefits and limitations. Here…

We report the first demonstration of a direct interaction between the extraordinary transverse spin angular momentum in evanescent waves and the intrinsic orbital angular momentum in optical vortex beams. By tapping the evanescent wave of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Zengkai Shao , Jiangbo Zhu , Yujie Chen , Yanfeng Zhang , Siyuan Yu

Low-intensity light beams carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), commonly known as vortex beams, have garnered significant attention due to promising applications in areas ranging from optical trapping to communication. In recent years,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yin Shi , Xiaomei Zhang , Alexey Arefiev , Baifei Shen

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