Plot of a twisted photon vector field. The rainbow-scale color variation of this potential indicates complex phases, which are superpositions of terms proportional to the azimuthal angle of the transverse momentum.
From the article:
Generation of High-Energy Photons with Large Orbital Angular Momentum by Compton BackscatteringU. D. Jentschura and V. G. Serbo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013001 (2011)
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