2015/05/02 by S. Stock, Sebastian O. Stock, A. Surzhykov +2 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Angular momentum #Angular momentum coupling #Angular momentum of light #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Compton scattering #Computational physics #Near-Field Optical Microscopy #Optics #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Orbital angular momentum of light #Photon #Photon polarization #Physics #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Total angular momentum quantum number #hep-ph #physics.atom-ph #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.92.013401
published as Phys. Rev. A 92, 013401 (2015)
arxiv created 2015/05/02 · openalex publication_date 2015/07/02 · arxiv updated 2015/07/03 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Compton scattering of twisted photons is investigated within a nonrelativistic framework using first-order perturbation theory. We formulate the problem in the density-matrix theory, which enables one to gain new insights into scattering processes of twisted particles by exploiting the symmetries of the system. In particular, we analyze how the angular distribution and polarization of the scattered photons are affected by the parameters of the initial beam such as the opening angle and the projection of orbital angular momentum. We present analytical and numerical results for the angular distribution and the polarization of Compton scattered photons for initially twisted light and compare them with the standard case of plane-wave light.