Quantized rotation of atoms from photons with orbital angular momentum

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Andersen, M F ^a   Ryu, C ^a   Cladé, Pierre ^a   Natarajan, Vasant ^a,c   Vaziri, A ^a,b   Helmerson, K ^a   Phillips, W D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COHERENT LIGHT; GAS CONDENSATES; PHOTONS; SODIUM; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COHERENT TRANSFER; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS; SODIUM ATOMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33750465202     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.170406     Document Type: Article

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