Numerical Simulation of Radiative Transfer of Electromagnetic Angular Momentum

TL;DR

This paper presents numerical simulations of electromagnetic angular momentum transfer involving light scattering by dipoles with Zeeman splitting, highlighting how angular momentum leaks to infinity.

Contribution

It introduces a numerical approach to simulate electromagnetic angular momentum transfer and leakage in systems with Zeeman-split dipoles, which is a novel analysis.

Findings

Demonstrates leakage of electromagnetic angular momentum to infinity.

Provides numerical methods for simulating angular momentum transfer.

Analyzes effects of Zeeman splitting on electromagnetic scattering.

Abstract

We present numerical simulations of light emitted by a source and scattered by surrounding electric dipoles with Zeeman splitting. We calculate the leakage of electromagnetic angular momentum to infinity.