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In this work, we explore the motion of a twisted particle possessing intrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) as it traverses a weak stellar gravitational field, which we approximate using a polytropic model. We disregard the spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Dan-Dan Lian , Peng-Ming Zhang

The insight that optical vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), which emerged in Leiden about 30 years ago, has since led to an ever expanding range of applications and follow-up studies. This paper starts with a short personal…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-24 Robert J. C. Spreeuw

Context. Disk accretion onto weakly magnetized stars leads to the formation of a boundary layer (BL) where the gas loses its excess kinetic energy and settles onto the star. There are still many open questions concerning the BL, for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 Marius Hertfelder , Wilhelm Kley

For over three decades, the study of optical vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been at the forefront of optics, driven by fundamental questions about optical momentum as well as diverse applications in quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-15 Kayn A Forbes

Single photons with helical phase structures may carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and their entanglement is important for quantum information science and fundamental tests of quantum theory. Because there is no…

The orbital dynamics of magnons have recently drawn interest due to their potential roles in thermal and orbital transport phenomena in magnetic insulators. In this study, we investigate the orbital magnetic moment (OMM) and orbital angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Youngjae Jeon , Jongjun M. Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

It is well known that the rotational motion does not induce Unruh effect, because the Minkowski vacuum coincides with the vacuum state defined by the pure rotating observers. However, are there Rindler particles carrying orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Zhigang Bu , Liangliang Ji , Baifei Shen

The investigation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of delocalised Bloch electrons has advanced our understanding of magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena in crystals, drawing widespread interest across various materials science…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Amit Agarwal , Dimitrie Culcer

In this short note we derive an approximate expression for the mode density of modes carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a cylindrical cavity which is large compared to the inverse wavevector in any direction. We argue that in the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 Mauritz Andersson , Eilert Berglind , Gunnar Björk

We demonstrate coupling between the atomic spin and orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) of the atom's center-of-mass motion in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The coupling is induced by Raman-dressing lasers with a Laguerre-Gaussian beam, and…

Semiconductor lasers capable of generating a vortex beam with a specific orbital angular momentum (OAM) order are highly attractive for applications ranging from nanoparticle manipulation, imaging and microscopy to fibre and quantum…

As an attractive degree of freedom in electromagnetic (EM) waves, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) enables infinite communication channels for both classical and quantum communications. The exploration of OAM generation inspires various…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-21 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam has orbital angular momentum (OAM). A particle trapped in an LG beam will rotate about the beam axis, due to the transfer of OAM. The rotation of the particle is usually in the same direction as that of the beam…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yang Li , Lei-Ming Zhou , Nan Zhao

We investigate two-photon entangled states using two important degrees of freedom of the electromagnetic field, namely orbital angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum. For photons propagating in the same direction we apply the idea…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Daniel Bhatti , Joachim von Zanthier , Girish S. Agarwal

The past decades have seen substantial interest in the so-called orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, driven largely by its diverse range of applications. However, there are fundamental theoretical issues with decomposing the angular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Eric Palmerduca , Hong Qin

Quantum entanglement shared between more than two particles is essential to foundational questions in quantum mechanics, and upcoming quantum information technologies. So far, up to 14 two-dimensional qubits have been entangled, and an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 B. C. Hiesmayr , M. J. A. de Dood , W. Löffler

In this letter a general method for expanding paraxial beams into multipolar electromagnetic fields is presented. This method is applied to the expansion of paraxial modes with orbital angular momentum (OAM), showing how the paraxial OAM is…

Optics · Physics 2008-04-10 Gabriel Molina-Terriza

We study here fractional orbital angular momentum (OAM) states in electron vortex beams (EVB) from the perspective of geometric phase. We have considered the skyrmionic model of an electron, where it is depicted as a scalar electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Pratul Bandyopadhyay , Banasri Basu , Debashree Chowdhury

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)…

It is shown that due to Thomas precession, angular momentum is not generally a constant of the motion in a quasiclassical model of the Positronium atom consisting of circular-orbiting point charges with intrinsic spin and associated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 David C. Lush