The Role of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in Čerenkov Radiation

Ido Kaminer; Maor Mutzafi; Amir Levy; Gal Harari; Hanan Herzig Sheinfux; Scott Skirlo; Jonathan Nemirovsky; John D. Joannopoulos; Mordechai Segev; Marin Soljačić

The Role of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in Čerenkov Radiation

Ido Kaminer
, Maor Mutzafi
, Amir Levy
, Gal Harari
, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux
, Scott Skirlo
, Jonathan Nemirovsky
, John D. Joannopoulos
, Mordechai Segev
, Marin Soljačić

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

We show that Čerenkov radiation contains new phenomena arising from the quantum nature of charged fermions. The charge's orbital angular momentum and spin couple to the emitted photon, which scatters into preferred angles and polarizations.

Original language	English
Article number	FTu3A.4
Journal	Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2016 - San Jose, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

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The Role of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in Čerenkov Radiation

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