Photon angular momentum: Selection rules and multipolar transition moments

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Grinter, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

ATOMIC ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS; MULTIPOLAR TRANSITION MOMENTS; PHOTON ANGULAR MOMENTUM; VECTOR SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 42549085114     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/41/9/095001     Document Type: Article

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