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The field of orbitronics has emerged with great potential to impact information technology by enabling environmentally friendly electronic devices. The main electronic degree of freedom at play is the orbital angular momentum, which can…

Free electrons with a helical phase front, referred to as "twisted" electrons, possess an orbital angular momentum (OAM) and, hence, a quantized magnetic dipole moment along their propagation direction. This intrinsic magnetic moment can be…

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

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

Applications of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light range from the next generation of optical communication systems to optical imaging and optical manipulation of particles. Here we propose a micron-sized semiconductor source which…

Traditionally, the understanding of quantum transport, coherent and ballistic1, relies on the measurement of macroscopic properties such as the conductance. While powerful when coupled to statistical theories, this approach cannot provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Hackens , F. Martins , T. Ouisse , H. Sellier , S. Bollaert , X. Wallart , A. Cappy , J. Chevrier , V. Bayot , S. Huant

Controlled charge flows are fundamental to many areas of science and technology, serving as carriers of energy and information, as probes of material properties and dynamics, and as a means of revealing or even inducing broken symmetries.…

The coherent control of electron beams and ultrafast electron wave packets dynamics have attracted significant attention in electron microscopy as well as in atomic physics. In order to unify the conceptual pictures developed in both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 K. Eickhoff , C. Rathje , D. Köhnke , S. Kerbstadt , L. Englert , T. Bayer , S. Schäfer , M. Wollenhaupt

To increase system capacity of underwater optical communications, we employ the spatial domain to simultaneously transmit multiple orthogonal spatial beams, each carrying an independent data channel. In this paper, we multiplex and transmit…

Orbital angular momentum of photons is an intriguing system for the storage and transmission of quantum information, but it is rapidly degraded by atmospheric turbulence. We explore the ability of adaptive optics to compensate for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Jose Raul Gonzalez Alonso , Todd Brun

Terahertz (THz) frequency range holds immense potential for high-speed data processing and signal manipulation. However, a fundamental challenge remains: the efficient and tunable control of THz electromagnetic fields. One promising…

Terahertz spintronics offers the prospect of devices which are both faster and more energy-efficient. A promising route to achieve this goal is to exploit current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, the high-frequency properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) detection underpins almost all aspects of vortex beams' advances such as communication and quantum analogy. Conventional schemes are frustrated by low speed, complicated system, limited detection range. Here,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hao Wang , Ziyu Zhan , Futai Hu , Yuan Meng , Zeqi Liu , Xing Fu , Qiang Liu

Spin and orbital angular momentum of light plays a central role in quantum nanophotonics as well as topological electrodynamics. Here, we show that the thermal radiation from finite-sized bodies comprising of nonreciprocal magneto-optical…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xingyu Gao , Chinmay Khandekar , Zubin Jacob , Tongcang Li

We present energy-resolved photoelectron momentum maps for orbital tomography that have been collected with a novel and efficient time-of-flight momentum microscopy setup. This setup is combined with a 0.5 MHz table-top femtosecond…

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have led to stunning applications in various fields from quantum information to microscopy. In this letter, we examine OAM from the recently discovered high-harmonic generation (HHG) in…

The orbital Hall effect can generate currents of angular momentum more efficiently than the spin Hall effect in most metals. However, so far, it has only been understood as a steady state phenomenon. In this theoretical study, the orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk

Twisted light has recently gained enormous interest in communication systems. Thus far, twisted light has not yet been utilized for visible light communication to transmit data. Here, by exploiting the color and orbital angular momentum…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuanying Zhang , Jikang Wang , Wuhong Zhang , Shuting Chen , Lixiang Chen

The discovery of orbital angular momentum (OAM) in light established a new degree of freedom by which to control not only its flow but also its interaction with matter. Here, we show that by shaping extremely sub-wavelength polariton modes,…

Efficient transport of spin and orbital moments, and their electrical detection, are among the main challenges in spintronics and orbitronics. In magnetic insulators, these currents are mediated by magnons. In addition to carrying spin and…

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