Orbital angular momentum coupling in elastic photon-photon scattering

Aboushelbaya, R. and Glize, K. and Savin, A. F. and Mayr, M. and Spiers, B. and Wang, R. and Collier, J. and Marklund, M. and Trines, R. M. G. M. and Bingham, R. and Norreys, P. A. (2019) Orbital angular momentum coupling in elastic photon-photon scattering. Physical Review Letters, 123 (11). 113604. ISSN 0031-9007

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    Abstract

    In this Letter, we investigate the effect of orbital angular momentum (OAM) on elastic photon-photon scattering in a vacuum for the first time. We define exact solutions to the vacuum electromagnetic wave equation which carry OAM. Using those, the expected coupling between three initial waves is derived in the framework of an effective field theory based on the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian and shows that OAM adds a signature to the generated photons thereby greatly improving the signal-to-noise ratio. This forms the basis for a proposed high-power laser experiment utilizing quantum optics techniques to filter the generated photons based on their OAM state.

    Author(s):Aboushelbaya, R., Glize, K., Savin, A. F., Mayr, M., Spiers, B., Wang, R., Collier, J., Marklund, M., Trines, R. M. G. M., Bingham, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-7635 and Norreys, P. A.
    Item type:Article
    ID code:69814
    Keywords:photon-photon scattering, orbital angular momentum, vacuum electromagnetic wave equation, Physics, Physics and Astronomy(all)
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:17 Sep 2019 13:38
    Last modified:09 Nov 2019 04:39
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69814
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