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It has been expected that astronomical observations to detect the orbital angular momenta of electromagnetic waves may give us a new insight into astrophysics. Previous works pointed out the possibility that a rotating black hole can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-01 Ryusuke Nishikawa , Ken-ichi Nakao , Atsuki Masuda , Yasusada Nambu , Hideki Ishihara

The intrinsic mechanisms of the magneto-optical Kerr signal in chiral superconductors often involve multi-orbital degree of freedom. Here by considering a generic single-orbital and spinful Hamiltonian, we generalize the Onsager's relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Bin Geng , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

Period-averaged electromagnetic spin angular momentum is a well-established quantity for monochromatic fields, governing phenomena such as light-matter interactions with chiral particles and spin-orbit coupling effects. In contrast, the…

Binary black-hole systems with spins aligned or anti-aligned to the orbital angular momentum provide the natural ground to start detailed studies of the influence of strong-field spin effects on gravitational wave observations of coalescing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-09 Christian Reisswig , Sascha Husa , Luciano Rezzolla , Ernst Nils Dorband , Denis Pollney , Jennifer Seiler

Light carries angular momentum as spin and orbital components. The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of light refers to phenomena in which the spin (left or right circular polarisation) affects the spatial degrees of freedom. Recently, interest…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Longqing Yi , Ke Hu , Tünde Fülöp

In this article the quasi-Keplerian parameterisation for the case that spins and orbital angular momentum in a compact binary system are aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum vector is extended to 3PN point-mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-08 Manuel Tessmer , Johannes Hartung , Gerhard Schäfer

Gravitational waves provide us with a new window into our Universe, and have already been used to place strong constrains on the existence of light scalar fields, which are a common feature in many alternative theories of gravity. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville , Leong Khim Wong

We present a theoretical model for the spatial mode dynamics of an optical parametric oscillator under injection of orbital angular momentum. This process is then interpreted in terms of an interesting picture based on a Poincare…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Coutinho dos Santos , C. E. R. Souza , K. Dechoum , A. Z. Khoury

Spin and orbital are two basic degrees of freedom that play significant roles in exploring exotic quantum phases in optical lattices with synthetic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and high orbital bands, respectively. Here, we combine these two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhi-Hao Huang , Kou-Han Ma , Bao-Zong Wang , W. Vincent Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

Electromagnetic waves with an azimuthal phase shift are known to have a well defined orbital angular momentum. Different methods that allow for the detection of the angular momentum are proposed. For some, we discuss the required…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-20 H. Then , B. Thidé , J. T. Mendonça , T. D. Carozzi , J. Bergman , W. A. Baan , S. Mohammadi , B. Eliasson

Spin orbit interaction and the resulting Spin Hall effect of light are under recent intensive investigations because of their fundamental nature and potential applications. Here, we report an extraordinary spin specific beam shift of light…

Curved and topologically nontrivial magnetic structures offer new pathways to control spin-wave behavior beyond planar geometries. Here, we study spin-wave dynamics in M\"obius-shaped soft-magnetic nanostrips using micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Ashfaque Thonikkadavan , Massimiliano d'Aquino , Riccardo Hertel

We give an exact self-consistent operator description of the spin and orbital angular momenta, position, and spin-orbit interactions of nonparaxial light in free space. Both quantum-operator formalism and classical energy-flow approach are…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-28 K. Y. Bliokh , M. A. Alonso , E. A. Ostrovskaya , A. Aiello

We present a theoretical study of void spins and their correlation properties. The concept of the spin angular momentum for an unbound void is introduced to quantify the effect of the tidal field on the distribution of matter that make up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jounghun Lee , Daeseong Park

We study spin Hall effect in a three terminal Y-shaped device in presence of tunable spin-orbit (SO) interactions via Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism. We have evolved a fabrication technique for creating different angular separation between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu

We consider spin angular momentum density in inhomogeneous acoustic fields: evanescent waves and surface waves at interfaces with negative-density metamaterials. Despite being purely longitudinal (curl-free), acoustic waves possess…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

Optical spin angular momenta in a confined electromagnetic field exhibit remarkable difference with their free space counterparts, in particular, the optical transverse spin that is locked with the energy propagating direction lays the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Congcong Li , Peng Shi , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

We explore a subtle and fundamental nature of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in a general paraxial beam-field by mathematically characterizing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) flux densities of the spin-polarized component fields via…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-13 Anirban Debnath , Nirmal K. Viswanathan

We summarize recent developments in the study of the origin of halo spin profiles and preliminary implications on disk formation. The specific angular-momentum distributions within halos in N-body simulations match a universal shape, M(<j)…

The optical chirality and spin angular momentum of structured scalar vortex beams has been intensively studied in recent years. The pseudoscalar topological charge $\ell$ of these beams is responsible for their unique properties.…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-02 Kayn A. Forbes