Knotted and linked phase singularities in monochromatic waves

DOI10.1098/rspa.2001.0826zbMath1013.35016OpenAlexW2135097487MaRDI QIDQ4535312

Mark Dennis, M. V. Berry

Publication date: 13 June 2002

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

cylindrical coordinatesHelmholtz equationBessel beamknot and links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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