orbital angular momentum

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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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orbital angular momentum

One promising direction is a field called orbitronics, which focuses on using the motion of electrons around an atom's nucleus, known as orbital angular momentum, to carry and store information more efficiently.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026

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