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  • Title: Controllable Microparticle Spinning via Light without Spin Angular Momentum.
    Author: Wu YJ, Yu PP, Liu YF, Zhuang JH, Wang ZQ, Li YM, Qiu CW, Gong L.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2024 Jun 21; 132(25):253803. PubMed ID: 38996228.
    Abstract:
    The spin angular momentum (SAM) of an elliptically or circularly polarized light beam can be transferred to matter to drive a spinning motion. It is counterintuitive to find that a light beam without SAM can also cause the spinning of microparticles. Here, we demonstrate controllable spinning of birefringent microparticles via a tightly focused radially polarized vortex beam that has no SAM prior to focusing. To this end, the orbital Hall effect is proposed to control the radial separation of two spin components in the focused field, and tunable transfer of local SAM to microparticles is achieved by manipulating the twisted wavefront of the source light. Our work broadens the perspectives for controllable exertion of optical torques via the spin-orbit interactions.
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