Electrons have three intrinsic properties: spin, charge and orbital angular momentum. Researchers have long studied how to ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.

Optical vortices—light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM)—are characterized by helical wavefronts and phase ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field rotates. The other comes ...

A South Korean research team has successfully captured the first-ever observation of a 'wind' that explains the birth process ...

Advancing the rapidly growing field of photonic quantum information processing requires novel, highly scalable methods to ...

Physicists are using quantum computers to simulate high-intensity electromagnetic interactions to test the limits of light ...

A new electronics pathway that uses orbital currents instead of spin, enabling efficient, low-cost orbitronic devices without ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

The accidental use of Imperial instead of metric units meant doom for the Mars Climate Orbiter.