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Conservation of Angular momentum in the dipole selection rules

If the total angular momentum J of an atom is not changing during a dipole transition, where does the angular momentum for the photon come from?
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What is the “direction” of the transition dipole moment? (Understanding Eq. 9.29, Charge and Energy Transfer 3rd Ed, May & Kuhn)

For a real vector $\mathbf{r}$, the direction is given by: $\hat{\mathbf{n}}=\mathbf{r}/\left|\mathbf{r}\right|$. The transition dipole moment is a complex vector. How do you define its direction? ...
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Dipole moment of the electron

I've read that there are some restrictions on the value of a possible intrinsic electric dipole possessed by the electron, but isn't the dipole value dependent on the electron's wavefunction? Assuming ...
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What is the physical sense of the transition dipole moment?

So if the states are the same we achieve the expectation value of the dipole moment for a given state. I mean $ \langle \mathbf{\mu} \rangle = \langle \psi \vert \hat{\mathbf{\mu}} \vert \psi ...