Manipulating Twisted Electron Beams

2017/09/30 by Alexander J. Silenko, Pengming Zhang, Liping Zou · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Electron #Materials science #Nuclear physics #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Physics #physics.gen-ph #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.119.243903

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 243903 (2017) · 4 pages

openalex publication_date 2017/12/15 · arxiv created 2018/01/03 · arxiv updated 2018/01/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

A theoretical description of twisted (vortex) electrons interacting with electric and magnetic fields is presented, based on Lorentz transformations. The general dynamical equations of motion of a twisted electron with an intrinsic orbital angular momentum in an external field are derived. Methods for the extraction of an electron vortex beam with a given orbital polarization and for the manipulation of such a beam are developed.

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