Spin-Orbital Momentum Decomposition and Helicity Exchange in a Set of Non-Null Knotted Electromagnetic Fields
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Orbital and Spin Angular Momentum of Electromagnetic Fields
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Symmetry
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym10040088