Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses

Journal Article · Sat Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.013813· OSTI ID:21537055

Pavlov, Konstantin M ^[1]; Paganin, David M ^[2]; Vine, David J ^[3]; Schmalz, Jelena A ^[1]; Suzuki, Yoshio; Uesugi, Kentaro; Takeuchi, Akihisa; Yagi, Naoto ^[4]; Kharchenko, Alexander; Blaj, Gabriel ^[5]; Jakubek, Jan ^[6]; Altissimo, Matteo ^[7]; Clark, Jesse N ^[8]

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1. School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales 2351 (Australia)
2. School of Physics, Monash University, Victoria 3800 (Australia)
3. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010 (Australia)
4. SPring-8/JASRI (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute), Hyogo 679-5198 (Japan)
5. PANalytical B.V., P.O. Box 13, 7600 AA Almelo (Netherlands)
6. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 36 Prague 6 (Czech Republic)
7. Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)
8. London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT (United Kingdom)

Quantized x-ray phase vortices, namely, screw-type topological defects in the wave fronts of a coherent monochromatic scalar x-ray wave field, may be spontaneously nucleated by x-ray lenses. Phase retrieval is used to reconstruct the phase and amplitude of the complex disturbance created by aberrated gold nanolenses illuminated with hard x rays. A nanoscale quantized x-ray vortex-antivortex dipole is observed, manifest both as a pair of opposite-helicity branch points in the Riemann sheets of the multivalued x-ray phase map of the complex x-ray field and in the vorticity of the associated Poynting vector field.

• OSTI ID: 21537055
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013813; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
DEFECTS
DIPOLES
DISTURBANCES
GOLD
HARD X RADIATION
HELICITY
MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION
NANOSTRUCTURES
POYNTING THEOREM
QUANTIZATION
RIEMANN SHEET
SCALAR FIELDS
TOPOLOGY
VECTOR FIELDS
VORTICES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MATHEMATICS
METALS
MULTIPOLES
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
RADIATIONS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
X RADIATION