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Transfer of optical orbital angular momentum to a bound electron

Photons can carry angular momentum, not only due to their spin, but also due to their spatial structure. This extra twist has been used, for example, to drive circular motion of microscopic particles in optical tweezers as well as to create vortices in quantum gases. Here we excite an atomic transit...

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Autores principales: Schmiegelow, Christian T., Schulz, Jonas, Kaufmann, Henning, Ruster, Thomas, Poschinger, Ulrich G., Schmidt-Kaler, Ferdinand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27694805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12998