Separation of Angular Momentum

Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light.

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an attractive degree of freedom for fundamental studies in quantum mechanics. In addition, the discrete unbounded state-space of OAM has been used to enhance classical and quantum communications. Unambiguous measurement of OAM is a key part of all such experiments. However, state-of-the-art methods for separating single photons carrying a large number ...

Angular Momentum

Addition of Angular Momentum

5 Spin-Orbit coupling 9 5.1 The physical interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2 Complete set of observables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.3 Level splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.4 Computation of 1⊗ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Angular Momentum in Chemistry

Noting that current chemical theory is based almost exclusively on electronic energy and spin variables the equal importance of orbital angular momentum is explored in this paper. From its classical definition the angular momentum of electrons in an atom is shown to obey Laplace’s equation, which automatically leads to discrete values in terms of spherical harmonics. This analysis assumes a con...

Rotations and Angular Momentum

2 Exercise. Prove it. ◦ In fact, as sophisticates can show you, on a complex space a linear operator which preserves all norms will also preserve all inner products. But the key thing is to remember is that a unitary operator preserves all inner products (and therefore all norms). • This is analogous to the fact that translations and rotations in ordinary three-dimensional space preserve distan...