Experimental realization of neutron helical waves

Dusan Sarenac; Melissa E. Henderson; Huseyin Ekinci; Charles W. Clark; David G. Cory; Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt; Michael G. Huber; Connor Kapahi; Dmitry A. Pushin

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Experimental realization of neutron helical waves

Dusan Sarenac, Melissa E. Henderson, Huseyin Ekinci, Charles W. Clark, David G. Cory, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Michael G. Huber, Connor Kapahi, Dmitry A. Pushin

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Methods of preparation and analysis of structured waves of light, electrons, and atoms have been advancing rapidly. Despite the proven power of neutrons for material characterization and studies of fundamental physics, neutron science has not been able to fully integrate these techniques because of small transverse coherence lengths, the relatively poor resolution of spatial detectors, and low fluence rates. Here, we demonstrate methods that are practical with the existing technologies and show the experimental achievement of neutron helical wavefronts that carry well-defined orbital angular momentum values. We discuss possible applications and extensions to spin-orbit correlations and material characterization techniques.

Original language	English
Article number	eadd2002
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	8
Issue number	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add2002
State	Published - Nov 2022

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