Technical Terms Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM): The quantised component of angular momentum arising from the spatial distribution and helical phase structure of an electron beam.

Forgotten property of the electron Physical discovery opens up new avenues for 'orbitronics' Date: May 20, 2025 Source: Forschungszentrum Juelich Summary: The orbital angular momentum of electrons ...

New link between crystal structure and electron "Our results show that the structure of the crystal directly influences the angular momentum of the electrons—an effect that we were able to ...

Existing methods of characterizing electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum are inefficient as they allow measuring one OAM state at a time. Here the authors demonstrate an OAM ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

Orbital angular momentum monopoles have been the subject of great theoretical interest as they offer major practical advantages for the emerging field of orbitronics, a potential energy-efficient ...

A research team succeeds in solving a decade-old physical puzzle: the question of the fate of angular momentum during the ultrafast demagnetization of nickel crystals by laser light.

The proposed diffractive deep neural network employs orbital angular momentum encoding and diffractive layers to process spatial information from handwritten digits, offering a robust and ...

Orbital angular momentum has the potential to transfer, manipulate and store information. They are made from the orbital angular momentum of electrons orbiting their atomic nucleus – and the study of ...

New link between crystal structure and electron "Our results show that the structure of the crystal directly influences the angular momentum of the electrons—an effect that we were able to ...