Physical Decomposition of Photon Angular Momentum
Quantum Physics
2014-07-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We address the problem of angular momentum decomposition of a free photon. We propose a natural and physical scheme for separating the total angular momentum operator for a free photon into an orbital part and a spin part with the hope that it solves this long-standing problem and it could provide a natural basis for further study of the problem of angular momentum decomposition of a gauge field system.
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@article{arxiv.1407.2035,
title = {Physical Decomposition of Photon Angular Momentum},
author = {Wei-Min Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2035},
year = {2014}
}
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4 pages, LaTex2e, some minor changes and references added