orbital angular momentum

American  

noun

Physics.

1. the component of angular momentum of an electron in an atom or a nucleon in a nucleus, arising from its orbital motion rather than from its spin.

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Example Sentences

"Most experimentalists assume that the angular momentum of light can be split into spin and orbital angular momentum," said Palmerduca.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

More recently, scientists have found that electrons are also capable of generating electricity through a second kind of movement: orbital angular momentum, similar to how Earth revolves around the sun.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

An opponent could argue that although we thought we measured polarization, our apparatus actually probed some other property—say, the photon's orbital angular momentum.

From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023

Instead Chen, Wang and their colleagues prepared single-photon pairs and entangled two of their properties independently: their polarization state and a property called orbital angular momentum.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2022

It also shows how Borb is along the same line as the orbital angular momentum Lorb .

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015