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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Xin, H., Muller, D. A new spin on electron beams. Nature Nanotech 5, 764–765 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.222
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