Theory and applications of free-electron vortex states

KY Bliokh, IP Ivanov, G Guzzinati, L Clark… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Both classical and quantum waves can form vortices: entities with helical phase fronts and
circulating current densities. These features determine the intrinsic orbital angular …

Electron vortices: Beams with orbital angular momentum

SM Lloyd, M Babiker, G Thirunavukkarasu… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The recent prediction and subsequent creation of electron vortex beams in a number of
laboratories occurred after almost 20 years had elapsed since the recognition of the physical …

A THz-OAM wireless communication system based on transmissive metasurface

H Yang, S Zheng, H Zhang, N Li, D Shen… - … on Antennas and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of various emerging technologies, the capacity of current wireless
communication system is gradually saturated, and terahertz (THz) and orbital angular …

Quantum nature of dielectric laser accelerators

Y Adiv, K Wang, R Dahan, P Broaddus, Y Miao… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) hold great promise for producing economic and
compact on-chip radiation sources. On-chip DLAs benefit from fabrication capabilities of the …

Generation of perfect electron vortex beam with a customized beam size independent of orbital angular momentum

R Yu, P Huo, M Liu, W Zhu, A Agrawal, Y Lu, T Xu - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The electron vortex beam (EVB)-carrying quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM) plays
an essential role in a series of fundamental research. However, the radius of the transverse …

Polarizing Free Electrons in Optical Near Fields

D Pan, H Xu - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Polarizing electron beams using light is highly desirable but exceedingly challenging, as the
approaches proposed in previous studies using free-space light usually require enormous …

Propagation properties of the electron circular vortex beam based on the butterfly catastrophe

H Wu, Z Li, H Tang, Z Fan, X Cai, Z Feng, J Zhang, Z Xu… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
In this paper, an alternative kind of electron circle butterfly vortex beam (ECBVB) based on
the butterfly catastrophe is introduced, and its propagation characteristics in free space and …

[PDF][PDF] Engineering electron-electron interaction for advanced quantum metrology in electron microscopy

C Chiari, M Beleggia, V Grillo - BIO Web of Conferences, 2024 - bio-conferences.org
Engineering electron-electron interaction for advanced quantum metrology in electron
microscopy Page 1 Engineering electron-electron interaction for advanced quantum …

Shaping long-lived electron wavepackets for customizable optical spectra

R Dangovski, N Rivera, M Soljačić, I Kaminer - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Electrons in atoms and molecules are versatile physical systems allowing a vast range of
light–matter interactions. Spontaneous emission, which appears in a wide variety of …