The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals ...

The semiconductor they developed emits circularly polarized light—meaning ... a field of research that uses the spin, or inherent angular momentum, of electrons to store and process information ...

Photoelectrons emitted by Cs vapor exposed to circularly polarized light with 2750≲λ≲3150 Å should have spin orientation ≳85% parallel to the light's angular momentum. Measurements of this orientation ...

When circular polarized light is ... in which researchers manipulate the intrinsic angular momentum (spin) of electrons, for example, by applying light. “Spintronics had traditionally dealt ...

The researchers also tested the effect of circularly polarized light, which carries intrinsic angular momentum, but found it generated little to no current. This confirmed that the current only ...

Here, the property used to transfer information is the spin of the electron. Researchers are also exploring the possibility of using the orbital angular momentum ... using circularly polarised X-rays ...

Photons possess not one but two distinct forms of angular momentum: spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM). SAM dances between two eigenvalues, representing right and left ...

1 Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China 2 Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin, China As an intrinsic property of ...

An ultracompact circularly ... and spin angular momentum of photoluminescence and lasing without any spin injection. This approach may improve the design of current sources of chiral light and ...

We show the transformation of angular momenta of circularly polarized light in each fiber of such a system. The parameters of the anisotropic and multihelical fibers are established to implement ...

When a magnetic material is bombarded with short pulses of laser light, it loses its magnetism ... These phonons are circularly polarized and are thus able to carry the missing angular momentum away ...