Spin and Orbital Angular Momenta of Electromagnetic Waves: From Classical to Quantum Forms

Wei E.I. Sha; Zhihao Lan; Menglin L.N. Chen; Yongpin P. Chen; Sheng Sun

doi:10.1109/JMMCT.2024.3370729

Spin and Orbital Angular Momenta of Electromagnetic Waves: From Classical to Quantum Forms

Wei E.I. Sha, Zhihao Lan, Menglin L.N. Chen, Yongpin P. Chen, Sheng Sun

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Abstract

Angular momenta of electromagnetic waves are important both in concepts and applications. In this work, we systematically discuss two types of angular momenta, i.e., spin angular momentum and orbital angular momentum in various cases, e.g., with source and without source, in classical and quantum forms. Numerical results demonstrating how to extract the topological charge of a classical vortex beam by spectral method are also presented.

Original language	English
Article number	10453653
Pages (from-to)	113-117
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2024.3370729
Publication status	Published - Feb 2024

Keywords

electromagnetic waves
orbital angular momentum
quantization of Maxwell's equations
Spin angular momentum
vortex beam

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Modelling and Simulation
Mathematical Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Computational Mathematics

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