Time-diffracting 2D wave vortices

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10147v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:12:41 GMT
• Title: Time-diffracting 2D wave vortices
• Authors: Boris A. Khanikati, Konstantin Y. Bliokh,
• Abstract summary: We introduce another class of wave vortices which are localized in a 2D plane, do not propagate in space, and instead propagate/diffract solely in time.<n>These vortices possess well-defined transverse OAM and can naturally appear in 2D wave systems, such as surface polaritons or water waves.
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• Abstract: Wave vortices constitute a large family of wave entities, closely related to phase singularities and orbital angular momentum (OAM). So far, two main classes of localized wave vortices have been explored: (i) transversely-localized monochromatic vortex beams that carry well-defined longitudinal OAM and propagate/diffract in space, and (ii) 2D-localized spatiotemporal vortex pulses that carry the more elusive transverse (or tilted) OAM and propagate/diffract in both space and time. Here we introduce another class of wave vortices which are localized in a 2D plane, do not propagate in space (apart from uniform radial deformations), and instead propagate/diffract solely in time. These vortices possess well-defined transverse OAM and can naturally appear in 2D wave systems, such as surface polaritons or water waves. We provide a general integral expression for time-diffracting 2D wave vortices, their underlying ray model, as well as examples of approximate and exact wave solutions. We also analyze the temporal Gouy phase closely related to the rotational evolution in such vortices.

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