Angular momentum of light

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2005-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504078v2

Journal of Modern Optics 52 (8) 1145-1154 (2005)

Physics

Optics

15 pages references updated typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1080/09500340512331326832

By means of the Helmholtz theorem on the decomposition of vector fields, the
angular momentum of the classical electromagnetic field is decomposed, in a
general and manifestly gauge invariant manner, into a spin component and an
orbital component. The method is applied to linearly and circularly polarized
plane waves in their classical and quantum forms.

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