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

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
Title of host publication	CLEO
Subtitle of host publication	QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2016
ISBN (Electronic)	9781557528209
State	Published - 2016
Event	CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2016 - San Jose, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

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Name	Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

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Conference	CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	5/06/16 → 10/06/16

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Mechanics of Materials

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Kaminer, I, Mutzafi, M, Levy, A, Harari, G, Sheinfux, HH, Skirlo, S, Nemirovsky, J, Joannopoulos, JD, Segev, M & Soljačić, M 2016, The Role of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in Čerenkov Radiation. in CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2016., FTu3A.4, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2016, San Jose, United States, 5/06/16.

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The Role of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in Čerenkov Radiation

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