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The orbital motion of chargeless bosons, unlike that of electrons, does not generate a magnetic moment and thus cannot directly interact with magnetic fields. To formulate the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of magnons, we first identify its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Junyu Tang , Ran Cheng

Particles in quantum vortex states (QVS) carrying definite orbital angular momenta (OAM) brings new perspectives in various fundamental interaction processes. When unique properties arise in the QVS, understanding how OAM manifest itself…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-15 Zhigang Bu , Liangliang Ji , Shaohu Lei , Huayu Hu , Xiaomei Zhang , Baifei Shen

Electrons carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently been discovered theoretically and obtained experimentally that opens up possibilities for using them in high-energy physics. We consider such a twisted electron moving in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-12 Dmitry V. Karlovets

The angular displacement estimation is one of significant branches of quantum parameter estimation. However, most of the studies have focused on the single-angular displacement estimation, while the multiple angular displacement estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Shaoyan Gao

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons, as a new fundamental degree of freedom, has excited a great diversity of interest, because of a variety of emerging applications. Arbitrarily tunable OAM has gained much attention, but its creation…

Light endowed with orbital angular momentum, commonly termed optical vortex light, has an azimuthal phase indexed by the orbital quantum number $l$. In contrast to the two basis states of the optical spin angular momentum, the interest in…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-15 Matt M Coles

Light's orbital angular momentum (OAM) is an unbounded degree of freedom emerging in helical beams that appears very advantageous technologically. Using a chiral microlaser, i.e. an integrated device that allows generating an emission…

We report the first experimental characterization of the first-order continuous variable orbital angular momentum states. Using a spatially non-degenerate optical parametric oscillator (OPO) we produce quadrature entanglement between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikael Lassen , Gerd Leuchs , Ulrik L. Andersen

There is recent interest in the use of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) for creating multiple channels within free-space optical communication systems. One limiting issue is that, for a given beam size at the transmitter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Miles J. Padgett , Filippo M. Miatto , Martin Lavery , Anton Zeilinger , Robert W. Boyd

We present unstratified 3D MHD simulations of an accretion disk with a boundary layer (BL) that have a duration $\sim 1000$ orbital periods at the inner radius of the accretion disk. We find the surprising result that angular momentum piles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Eliot Quataert

Recently, a new device to measure the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) electronic spectrum after elastic/inelastic scattering in a transmission electron microscope has been introduced. We modified the theoretical framework needed to describe…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Matteo Zanfrognini , Enzo Rotunno , Stefano Frabboni , Alicia Sit , Ebrahim Karimi , Ulrich Hohenester , Vincenzo Grillo

We present experiments on Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) induced beam shifts in optical reflection. Specifically, we observe the spatial Goos-H\"anchen shift in which the beam is displaced parallel to the plane of incidence and the angular…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-29 N. Hermosa , M. Merano , A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

In this paper we demonstrate the postulated mechanism of self-healing specifically due to orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) in radio vortex beams having equal beam-widths. In previous work we experimentally demonstrated self-healing effects in…

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

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is not a Poincar\'e invariant quantity; so, its value is observer dependent. Notwithstanding that, in quantum chromodynamics, a Poincar\'e-invariant theory, OAM is part of every hadron wave function. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Y. -Y. Xiao , Z. -N. Xu , Z. -Q. Yao , C. D. Roberts , J. Rodríguez-Quintero

This article reports the modeling of inertial rotational Brownian motion as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process evolving on the cotangent bundle of the rotation group, SO(3). The benefit of this approach and the use of a different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-14 Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jikai Ye , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Electron vortex beams have been predicted to enable atomic scale magnetic information measurement, via transfer of orbital angular momentum. Research so far has focussed on developing production techniques and applications of these beams.…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 L. Clark , A. Béché , G. Guzzinati , J. Verbeeck

Breaking the diffraction limit and focusing laser beams to subwavelength scale are becoming possible with the help of recent developments in plasmonics. Such subwavelength focusing bridges different length scales of laser beams and matter.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroyuki Fujita , Masahiro Sato

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing offers a promising approach to high-capacity optical communication by harnessing the orthogonality of vortex beams. However, its practical deployment is severely limited in real-world settings…

We performed angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) studies on Cu(111) and Au(111) surface states with circularly polarized light. Existence of local orbital angular momentum (OAM) is confirmed as has been predicted to be broadly present in a…