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Does a quadrupole transition mean emission of one photon with spin 2?
If it's true and spin-2 photons do exist, could you please point to some literature that discusses spin-2 photons?
If not, then how exactly does a selection rule for quadrupole transition make sense ...
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What starts the movement of a photon
Although a photon has no (rest) mass, it does have a measurable speed. Its movement can be altered by gravity. A photon "travels". If I turn on a flashlight, seen by someone at a distance, the photons ...
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Transparency of solids using bandgaps and relation to conduction and valence bands
I think I understand how a solid can appear transparent as long as the energy of the photons travelling through it are not absorbed in the material's bandgap. But how does this band gap relate to ...
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Electromagnetic charge [duplicate]
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If electromagnetic field give charge to particles, does photon carry charge?
Is it possible to charge photons
I was wondering if light when it's in wave form (seeing ...
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Why isn't light scattered through transparency?
I'm asking a question that has bothered me for years and years. First of all, let me give some context. I'm a layman in physics (college educated, math major). I've read Feynman's QED cover to cover, ...
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EM wave function & photon wavefunction
According to this review
Photon wave function. Iwo Bialynicki-Birula. Progress in Optics 36 V (1996), pp. 245-294. arXiv:quant-ph/0508202,
a classical EM plane wavefunction is a wavefunction (in ...
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Name for phasor model of light
I'm looking for the name of the model of light "exploring" every path to a given point, and reaching that point with a probability proportional to the square of the resultant phasor's amplitude. (Yes, ...
