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Angular Momentum of Photons Emitted by Atoms

2003/08/18 by M. A. Can, M. Ali Can, Özgür Çakır +13
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0308093

4 pages, laser physics workshop 2003

arxiv created 2003/08/18 · openalex publication_date 2003/08/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

It is shown that the spin and orbital angular momentum of electric dipole photons have the same operator structure and may differ from each other only by spatial dependence in the very vicinity of the atom. It is shown that the photon twins created by a dipole forbidden transition can manifest the maximum entanglement with respect to the angular momentum. It is shown that the states of photons with projection of angular momentum m=0 are less stable than those with m= ± 1.

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