Electron vortex beams in a magnetic field: A new twist on landau levels and aharonov-bohm states

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bliokh, Konstantin Y ^a,b   Schattschneider, Peter ^c   Verbeeck, Jo ^d   Nori, Franco ^a,e  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL BEAM; CYCLOTRON TRAJECTORY; EHRENFEST THEOREM; ELECTRON VORTEX; FLUX LINES; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; GOUY PHASE; LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LANDAU LEVELS; LANDAU STATE; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; NONDIFFRACTING; ZERO FREQUENCY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; VORTEX FLOW;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84868018714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041011     Document Type: Article

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