Spin-Textured Neutron Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12419v3
• Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 16:51:02 GMT
• Title: Spin-Textured Neutron Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum
• Authors: Quan Le Thien, Sam McKay, Roger Pynn and Gerardo Ortiz
• Abstract summary: We present a rigorous theoretical framework underpinning the technique of spin-echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering (SEMSANS) We show how the technique can be extended in order to generate spin-textured neutron beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) via birefringent neutron spin-polarization devices known as magnetic Wollaston prisms.
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• Abstract: We present a rigorous theoretical framework underpinning the technique of spin-echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering (SEMSANS), and show how the technique can be extended in order to generate spin-textured neutron beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) via birefringent neutron spin-polarization devices known as magnetic Wollaston prisms. Neutron OAM beams are mathematically characterized by a ``cork-screw'' phase singularity $e^{i \ell \phi}$ about the propagation axis where $\ell$ is the OAM quantum number. To understand the precise relationship between the emergent OAM state and the variety of spin textures realized by various setups, we have developed a path-integral approach that in the interferometric limit makes a judicious use of magnetic Snell's law. We show that our proposed technique produces a complex two-dimensional pattern of spin-OAM entangled states which may be useful as a probe of quantum magnetic materials. We compare our path-integral approach to the well-known single-path Larmor precession model and present a pedagogical derivation of magnetic Snell's law of refraction for both massive and massless particles based on Maupertuis's action principle.

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