Knotted and linked phase singularities in monochromatic waves

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2001.0826MaRDI QIDQ4535312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. V. Berry, M. R. Dennis

Publication date 13 June 2002

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/29378/1/PA457_2251.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Bessel beamcylindrical coordinatesHelmholtz equationknot and links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solutions to PDEs in closed form (35C05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) General topics in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A99)

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