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In the last decades unprecedented progress in the manipulation of spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has been achieved, enabling a number of applications ranging from classical and quantum communication,…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-26 Graciana Puentes

Angular momentum (AM), a fundamental concept describing the rotation of an object about an axis, profoundly influences all branches of physics. In condensed matter, AM is intimately related to the emergence of topological quantum states,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-09 Heda Zhang , N. Peshcherenko , F. Yang , T. Z. Ward , P. Raghuvanshi , L. Lindsay , Claudia Felser , Y. Zhang , J. -Q. Yan , H. Miao

Rashba-split surface band is characterized by a one-to-one correspondence between the electron's momentum k and its spin orientation. Here we show that a similar correspondence between momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM) must exist…

Chiral light-matter interactions have traditionally been understood in terms of electric-magnetic dipolar interference driven by light with spin angular momentum. Here, we show that optical chirality can also originate from the orbital…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-13 Shun Hashiyada , An'an Wu , Yoshito Y. Tanaka

The interplay between chirality and topology nurtures many exotic electronic properties. For instance, topological chiral semimetals display multifold chiral fermions that manifest nontrivial topological charge and spin texture. They are an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Qun Yang , Jiewen Xiao , Iñigo Robredo , Maia G. Vergniory , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

Using orbital angular momentum (OAM) currents in nanoelectronics, for example, for magnetization manipulation via spin-orbit torque (SOT), represents a growing field known as "spin-orbitronics". Here, using the density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Poonam Kumari , Cyrille Barreteau , Alexander Smogunov

Despite spin (SAM) and orbital (OAM) angular momentum dynamics are well-studied in demagnetization processes, their components receive less focus. Here, we utilize the non-collinear spin version of real-time time-dependent density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Junjie He , Shuo Li , Thomas Fruenheim

As the traditional resources (frequency, time, space, etc.) are efficiently utilized, it becomes more and more challenging to satisfy the ever-lasting capacity-growing and users-boosting demand in wireless networks. Recently, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-23 Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Haiyue Jing , Shanghua Gao , Hailin Zhang

A general orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode selection principle is put forward involving the rotationally symmetric superposition of chiral states. This principle is not only capable of explaining the operation of spiral zone plate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Yuanjie Yang , G. Thirunavukkarasu , M. Babiker , Jun Yuan

Motivated by recent progress in the generation of optical spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs), there is a theoretical discussion about the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by such pulses. Two recent works [K. Y. Bliokh,…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-20 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Optical beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) have numerous potential applications, but the means used for their generation often lack crucial on-demand control. In this work, we present a mechanism of converting spin angular momentum…

In the present work we have demonstrated a possibility for real-time operation by orbital an-gular momentum (OAM) of optical beams via Pockels effect in solid crystalline materials. Basing on the analysis of optical Fresnel ellipsoid…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ihor Skab , Yurij Vasylkiv , Ihor Smaga , Rostyslav Vlokh

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…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement gives access to multiple qubit and high dimensional Hilbert spaces, but is unfortunately susceptible to disturbance, decaying in real-world noisy channels. Here, we show there is an underlying…

Realization of unconventional odd-parity magnets usually requires noncollinear spin textures of the underlying lattice. We propose a different concept of $p$-wave magnetism that originates from an orbital texture induced by loop currents.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Yantao Li , Pavlo Sukhachov

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons is carried upon the wave front of an optical vortex and is important in physics research due to its fundamental degree of freedom. As for the interaction with materials, the optical OAM was shown to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Yoshiki Kohmura , Kei Sawada , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Kenji Ohwada , Tetsuya Ishikawa

Topological aspects of the geometry of DNA and similar chiral molecules have received a lot of attention, while the topology of their electronic structure is less explored. Previous experiments have revealed that DNA can efficiently filter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Yizhou Liu , Jiewen Xiao , Jahyun Koo , Binghai Yan

In recent times the spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light have gained prominence because of their significance in optical communication systems, micromanipulation, sub-wavelength position sensing. To this…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-24 Diptabrata Paul , Deepak K Sharma , G V Pavan Kumar

A matrix representation is introduced for stationary beam-like light fields that allows for simultaneous treatment of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the second-order state of spatial coherence. This Coherence-OAM matrix is a…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 Olga Korotkova , Greg Gbur

Atmospheric turbulence characterization is crucial for technologies like free-space optical communications. Existing methods using a spatially-integrated one-dimensional (1D) orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum, P(m), obscure the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Wenjie Jiang , Mingjian Cheng , Lixin Guo , Andrew Forbes