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By considering mirror oscillation in a "tripod-scheme" laser-atom system, we advocate explorative studies of driven Dirac-like equations. Both analytical and numerical studies show that mirror oscillation can be used to drive an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong , C. H. Oh

Light is the fundamental medium through which we perceive the world around us. In the modern era, light can not only be used in its raw form but can also be used as a versatile tool. Generally, light fields carry energy and momentum (both…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-18 Bikash K. Das , Camilo Granados , Marcelo F. Ciappina

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral quasiparticles that show promise for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices because of their topological stability, small size (typically $\sim3-500$ nm), and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Wenrui Yang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Light can carry a spin angular momentum, an intrinsic and extrinsic orbital angular momentum, associated with a circular polarization, optical vortex beams, and varying beam trajectories, respectively. The interplay between these momenta…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Raghvendra P. Chaudhary , Imon Kalyan , Nir Shitrit

The relativistic electron vortex beam (REVB) has attracted increasing attention due to its nontrivial spin-orbit structure recently. As relativistic electrons are governed by the Dirac equation, exact solutions to this equation provide the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Zhongze Guo , Bei Xu , Qiang Gu

The most general form for symmetric modes of nonlinear discrete-symmetry systems with nonlinearity depending on the modulus of the field is presented. Vortex solutions are demonstrated to behave as Bloch modes characterized by an angular…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Albert Ferrando

The dynamics of one and two pointlike vortices in a planar quantum gas of spin-0 particles confined in an annular region is considered. New analytical and numerical solutions are found. The concept of stationarity radius, related to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-29 Markus Lakaniemi

In the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), achieving both spin and valley polarized Dirac state is significant to promote the fantastic integration of Dirac physics, spintronics and valleytronics. Based on ab initio calculations, here we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Zhifeng Liu , Wangxiang Feng , Hongli Xin , Yinlu Gao , Pengfei Liu , Yugui Yao , Hongming Weng , Jijun Zhao

Perfect (optical) vortices (PVs) have the mooted ability to encode orbital angular momentum (OAM) onto the field within a well-defined annular ring. Although this makes the near-field radial profile independent of OAM, the far-field radial…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jonathan Pinnell , Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Andrew Forbes

Manifestations of orbital angular momentum induced effects in the diffraction of a radially polarized vector beam by an off-axis tilted aperture are studied both experimentally and theoretically. Experiments were carried out to extract the…

Twisted spin waves attracted research attentions lately and the orbital angular momentum they carry may be utilized in communication and computing technologies. In this work, we manifest by micromagnetic simulations that twisted spin wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Peiyuan Huang1 , Ruifang Wang

The stable vortex state that occurs in micron-scale magnetic disks is one of the most interesting and potentially useful phenomenon in nanomagnetism. A variety of tools have been applied to study the vortex state, and collective spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 P. H. Kim , F. Fani Sani , M. R. Freeman , J. P. Davis

The dynamics of particles with intrinsic angular momentum (spin) described by the Dirac equation is considered in a homogeneous space with rotation in the presence of a homogeneous vortex gravitational field. The effects of the interaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 V. G. Krechet , V. B. Oshurko , A. E. Kisser

We study the spontaneous formation of exciton polariton vortices in an all-optical non-resonantly excited annular trap, which is formed by ring-shaped subpicosecond laser pulses. Since the light emitted by these vortices carries orbital…

Micromagnetic simulations are used to study a spin-torque vortex oscillator excited by an out-of-plane dc current. The vortex core gyration amplitude is confined between two orbits due to periodical vortex core polarity reversals. The upper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Chloé Chopin , Simon de Wergifosse , Anatole Moureaux , Flavio Abreu Araujo

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by helical light beams is an unbounded degree of freedom of photons that offers a promising playground in modern photonics. So far, integrated sources of coherent light carrying OAM are based on…

A mechanism of a pinning of the quantized matter wave vortices by optical vortices in a specially arranged optical dipole traps is discussed. The vortex-antivortex optical arrays of rectangular symmetry are shown to transfer angular orbital…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Yu. Okulov

Spin angular momentum of a photon corresponds to a polarisation degree of freedom of lights, and such that various polarisation properties are coming from macroscopic manifestation of quantum-mechanical properties of lights. An orbital…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shinichi Saito

We unveil novel spin-orbit torque mechanisms driven by topological edge states in magnetic graphene-based devices. Within the energy gap, a damping-like torque plateau emerges within the quantum anomalous Hall phase upon breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , José H. García , Stephan Roche

In Schwarzschild spacetime, the gravitational spin-orbit couplings of the massless Dirac field and the photon field can be studied in a unified way. In contrary to the previous investigations presented mainly at the quantum-mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Zhi-Yong Wang