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A new spin on electron beams

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Ideas about angular momentum that have been borrowed from optics could allow the magnetic and spin structures of materials to be studied on atomic scales with electron vortex beams.

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Figure 1: Adding a twist to electron beams.

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  1. Huolin L. Xin is in the Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. hx35@cornell.edu,

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  2. David A. Muller is in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. dm24@cornell.edu,

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