Difference Between Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum

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Khrapko R. I.

e-mail: khrapko_ri@hotmail.com

Abstract

Reasons are presented against considering a moment of momentum flux density to be a spin flux density. A spin tensor is proposed to describe spin of a photon in the frame of the classical electrodynamics.

Keywords:

paraxial beam; dipole radiation; spin radiation

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