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We investigate the behaviour of a particle moving on the quotient manifold $M=C^2/Z_$ which is derived from the EH metric as the two centers approach each other. In the classical region of the configuration space we specify the physically…

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In this paper we study propagation of the high frequency electromagnetic waves in a curved spacetime. We discuss a so call spinoptics approach which generalizes a well known geometric optics approximation and allows one to take into account…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-26 Valeri P. Frolov

We present a study of the properties of the transversal "spin angular momentum" and "orbital angular momentum" operators. We show that the "spin angular momentum" operators are generators of spatial translations which depend on helicity and…

Spin and orbital angular momenta are fundamental physical characteristics described by polarization and spatial degrees of freedom, respectively. Polarization is a feature of vector fields while spatial phase gradient determines the orbital…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Lei Liu , Xiao-Chen Sun , Yuan Tian , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

An improved criterion for distinguishing conditions in which classical or quantum behavior occurs is developed by comparing classical and quantum mechanical measures of size while incorporating spatial and temporal restrictions on wave…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 C. L. Herzenberg

We study the motion of a particle in a particular magnetic field configuration both classically and quantum mechanically. For flux-free radially symmetric magnetic fields defined on circular regions, we establish that particle escape speeds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. Franklin , K. Cole Newton

We study theoretically the exchange of angular momentum between a photon beam and a plasma vortex, and demonstrate the possible excitation of photon angular momentum states in a plasma. This can be relevant to laboratory and space plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-05-19 J. T. Mendonça , B. Thidé , J. E. S. Bergman , S. M. Mohammadi , B. Eliasson , W. Baan , H. Then

We derive expressions for the energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum content of circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian wave-packets propagating in free space. The vectorial nature of the electromagnetic field is taken into account,…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

Extra dimensions are introduced: 3 in Classical Mechanics and 6 in Relativistic Mechanics, which represent orientations, resulting from rotations, of a particle, described by quaternions, and leading to a 7-dimensional, respectively…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 Evangelos Chaliasos

We identify that flexural guided elastic waves in elastic pipes carry a well-defined orbital angular momentum associated with the compressional dilatational potential. This enables the transfer of elastic orbital angular momentum, that we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-18 G. J. Chaplain , J. M. De Ponti , R. V. Craster

The theory of angular momentum connects physical rotations and quantum spins together at a fundamental level. Physical rotation of a quantum system will therefore affect fundamental quantum operations, such as spin rotations in projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Alexander A. Wood , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg , Robert E. Scholten , Andy M. Martin

The physics involved in the fundamental conservation equations of the spin and orbital angular momenta leads to new laws and phenomena that I disclose. To this end, I analyse the scattering of an electromagnetic wavefield by the canonical…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-04 Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas

We investigate the meaning of the wave function by analyzing the mass and charge density distributions of a quantum system. According to protective measurement, a charged quantum system has mass and charge density distributing in space,…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Shan Gao

In a previous work we have described the classical structure and analyzed the interaction of the classical Dirac particle with uniform and oscillating electric and magnetic fields. In the present paper we consider the interaction of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Juan Barandiaran , Martin Rivas

The equations of motion for the position and spin of a classical particle coupled to an external electromagnetic and gravitational potential are derived from an action principle. The constraints insuring a correct number of independent spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Karl Yee , Myron Bander

In this paper we shall define and study the angular momentum-energy space for the classical problem of plane-motions of a particle situated in a potential field of a central force. We shall present the angular momentum-energy space for some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Comanescu

Spin and orbital angular momenta (AM) are of fundamental interest in wave physics. Acoustic wave, as a typical longitudinal wave, has been well studied in terms of orbital AM, but still considered unable to carry non-zero integral spin AM…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-12 Wei Wang , Yang Tan , Jingjing Liu , Bin Liang , Jianchun Cheng

Suppose a classical electron is confined to move in the $xy$ plane under the influence of a constant magnetic field in the positive $z$ direction. It then traverses a circular orbit with a fixed positive angular momentum $L_z$ with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 S. J. van Enk

In this paper we present both the classical and quantum periodic-orbits of a neutral spinning particle constrained in two-dimensional central-potentials with a cylindrically symmetric electric-field in addition which leads to an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Jun-Li Xin , Jiu-Qing Liang

Some consequences of a fully classical unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism are worked out for the electromagnetic sector such as the occurrence of classical light beams with spin and orbital angular momenta that are topologically…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-27 Partha Ghose , Anirban Mukherjee