Braided nodal lines in wave superpositions
Nodal lines (phase singularities, optical vortices) are the generic interference fringes of complex scalar waves. Here, an exact complex solution of the time-independent wave equation (Helmholtz equation) is considered, possessing nodal lines which are braided in the form of a borromean, or pigtail...
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2003.
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