The Helicity of Magnetic Fields Associated with Relativistic Electron Vortex Beams

Norah Alsaawi,Vasileios E. Lembessis

Symmetry(2024)

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Abstract
For radially extended Bessel modes, the helicity density distributions of magnetic fields associated with relativistic electron vortex beams are investigated for first time in the literature. The form of the distribution is defined by the electron beam’s cylindrically symmetric density flux, which varies with the winding number ℓ and the electron spin. Different helicity distributions are obtained for different signs of the winding number ±ℓ, confirming the chiral nature of the magnetic fields associated with the electron vortex beam. The total current helicity for the spin-down state is smaller than that of the spin-up state. The different fields and helicities associated with opposite winding numbers and/or spin values will play an important role in the investigation of the interaction of relativistic electron vortices with matter and especially chiral matter. A comparison of the calculated quantities with the corresponding ones in the case of non-relativistic spin-polarized electron beams is performed.
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vortex beams,electrons,helicity,chirality,current density
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