Angular momentum of photons emitted by atoms
Author
Can, M. A.
Çakır, Ö.
Horzela, A.
Kapuscik, E.
Klyachko, A. A.
Shumovsky, A. S.
Date
2004Source Title
Laser Physics
Print ISSN
1054-660X
Electronic ISSN
1555-6611
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
Volume
14
Issue
9
Pages
1180 - 1184
Language
English
Type
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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 in the 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 a projection of angular momentum m = 0 are less stable than those with m = ±1.