Vortex lines of the electromagnetic field

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 621141-621148

  Bialynicki Birula, Iwo ^a,b   Bialynicka Birula, Zofia ^c  

^a CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY;

VORTEX LINES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0043011798     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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