Abstract
Abstract Radiation from certain oscillating charge distributions can have angular momentum that cannot be
explained in classical electrodynamics. We consider the angular momentum of a single-photon field
from an electric dipole oscillator and in particular compare the classical and quantum expressions
for the mean-square field angular momentum. We show that differences in these expressions are
attributable to zero-point oscillations of unexcited states of the dipole oscillator.
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