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Circularly Polarized Light Beam Carries the Double Angular Momentum (2003)

Authors: Radi I. Khrapko

A calculation is presented of absorption of a circularly polarized electromagnetic beam without an azimuth phase structure in a dielectric. The calculation shows that such a beam carries the double angular momentum as compared with predictions of the modern electrodynamics, which are used by experimenters. This angular momentum is consists of two equal parts, orbital and spin. A classical spin tensor of electromagnetic waves is used in the paper.

Comments: 6 Pages. This a translation of “Световой луч круговой поляризации несет удвоенный момент импульса” http://www.mai.ru/science/trudy/published.php?ID=34422 (2003). JMO made an inquiry about the translation.

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