Talk:Spin angular momentum of light

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Question of Image Correctness[edit]

There appears to be an inconsistency in the figure. Specifically, the spatial structure of the left and right waves on the far left column do not agree with the written electric field function on the far right. This could be because of the confusion surrounding what convention is used by different subfields. If I am not mistaken, the resolution is switching the far left top and bottom figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.231.110.79 (talk) 01:34, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I put a related question on the Physics Exchange because I found the image to be confusing, no realising you had raised it here. I've made the change you suggested to the PNG file. GR8DAN (talk) 22:49, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing[edit]

Photons have an angular momentum of 1. It is misleading to compare it to spin and only show 2 possible states. A photon can assume 3 states and they correspond to eigenfunctions of L=1. This should be mentioned somewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.173.83.196 (talk) 13:30, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]