Monday, 21 March 2016

electromagnetism - One question about sextupole


In multipole expansion, we use monopole, dipole, quadrupole or octupole to describe an electromagnetic field. But I saw someone use sextupole to describe transition states.


If we expand an electromagnetic field by spherical harmonics, $\ell=0,1,2,3$ represent monopole, dipole, quadrupole and octupole. Do we sextupole in electric field? For different $m$ in the expansion, are they also different modes?




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