The plane- and spherical-wave descriptions of electromagnetic radiation: a comparison and discussion of their relative merits

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/aac366zbMath1397.78026OpenAlexW2800057994MaRDI QIDQ4684650

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Publication date: 24 September 2018

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67124/1/Accepted_manuscript.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

angular momentumenergy transferquantum electrodynamicselectromagnetic radiationphoton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Quantum optics (81V80) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02) Multipole methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M16)

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