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In the context of a growing interdisciplinary interest in the angular momentum of wave fields, the spin-wave case has yet to be fully explored, with the extensively studied notion of spin transport being only part of the broader picture.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Thierry Valet , Kei Yamamoto , Benjamin Pigeau , Grégoire de Loubens , Olivier Klein

When generating light with orbital angular momentum by imprinting orbital phase onto a standard Gaussian beam, it is often assumed that the propagation of the generated spatial mode is a Laguerre-Gaussian. However, the true propagation of…

It is known that orbital angular momentum (OAM) couples the Goos-Hanchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts. Here, we present the first study of these shifts when the OAM-endowed LG(l,p) beams have higher-order radial mode index (p>0). We show…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-11 N. Hermosa , Andrea Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

There is an interesting but not so popular quantity called pseudo orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the Landau-level system, besides the well-known canonical and mechanical OAMs. The pseudo OAM can be regarded as a gauge-invariant extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yoshio Kitadono , Masashi Wakamatsu , Liping Zou , Pengming Zhang

The coupled transport of charge and orbital angular momentum (OAM) lies at the core of orbitronics. Here, we examine the reciprocal relation in orbital-charge-coupled transport in thin films, treating bulk and surface contributions on equal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Dongwook Go , Tom S. Seifert , Tobias Kampfrath , Kazuya Ando , Hyun-Woo Lee , Yuriy Mokrousov

The total angular momentum of a close system is a conserved quantity, which should remain constant in time for any excitation experiment once the pumping signal has extinguished. Such conservation, however, is never satisfied in practice in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Jacopo Simoni , Stefano Sanvito

Vortex light, a unique optical field that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a detailed theoretical analysis of OAM transfer from the input field to the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fan Meng , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

We propose a method for sorting electrons by orbital angular momentum (OAM). Several methods now exist to prepare electron wavefunctions in OAM states, but no technique has been developed for efficient, parallel measurement of pure and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-16 Benjamin J. McMorran , Tyler R. Harvey , Martin P. J. Lavery

This work presents an analytical framework for modeling a detected orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum of an optical beam subject to tilt and lateral displacement. Firstly, we demonstrate that both types of misalignment generate OAM…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-15 Arttu Nieminen , Rizwana Ahmad , Harald Haas , Humeyra Caglayan

One of the most important properties of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons is that the Hilbert space required to describe a general quantum state is infinite dimensional. In principle, this could allow for encoding arbitrarily large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Jose Raul Gonzalez Alonso , Todd Brun

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) modes are an important resource used in various branches of quantum science and technology due to their unique helical structure and countably infinite basis. Generating light that simultaneously carries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 D. Scharwald , L. Gehse , P. R. Sharapova

We demonstrate high-fidelity detection of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light using a compact and practical OAM spectrometer that maps the OAM spectrum to time. The spectrometer consists of a single optical delay loop to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-14 Paul Bierdz , Minho Kwon , Connor Roncaioli , Hui Deng

Recent experiments involving the interaction of optical vortices with atoms in quadrupole transitions have been shown to be accompanied by the exchange of orbital angular momentum (OAM) between the electronic states of the atom and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Smail Bougouffa , Mohamed Babiker

It is shown that the momentum density of free electromagnetic field splits into two parts. One has no contribution to the net momentum due to the transversality condition. The other yields all the momentum. The angular momentum that…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-01 Chun-Fang Li

We investigate the propagation of an optical vector vortex weakly interacting with a coherently prepared atomic medium (phaseonium) in a three-level $\Lambda$ configuration. The vector beam consists of vortex pulse pairs with right- and…

We propose and investigate the quasi-phase matched (QPM) nonlinear optical frequency conversion of optical vortices in periodically poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN). Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes are used to represent the orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-16 Guang-hao Shao , Zi-jian Wu , Jin-hui Chen , Fei Xu , Yan-qing Lu

In this paper, we propose a new quantitative method for determining the state number l of the beam carry Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), both individually and in a sum in a combination of l= -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 based on analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Eldar Anufriyev

Light beams can be characterized by their complex spatial profiles in both intensity and phase. Analogous to time signals, which can be decomposed into multiple orthogonal frequency functions, a light beam can also be decomposed into a set…

The inherent spin-orbit interaction of electrons inevitably couples spin to the orbital angular momentum (OAM), posing a fundamental challenge to spin-free orbital transport. Here, we propose a novel strategy to achieve spin-decoupled OAM…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Dongjin Oh , Sungsoo Hahn , Chiara Pacella , Junseo Yoo , Angel Rubio , Domenico Di Sante , Changyoung Kim

Photons carry one unit of angular momentum associated with their spin~\cite{Beth1936}. Structured vortex beams carry additional orbital angular momentum which can also be transferred to matter~\cite{Allen1992}. This extra twist has been…