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The Poincaré-sphere approach to polarization: Formalism and new labs with Poincaré beams
The motion of two identical masses connected by an ideal string symmetrically placed over a corner
An acoustic analog for a quantum mechanical level-splitting route to band formation
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November 2016
ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909
EDITORIAL
PAPERS
The Poincaré-sphere approach to polarization: Formalism and new labs with Poincaré beams
Am. J. Phys. 84, 822–835 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4960468
The motion of two identical masses connected by an ideal string symmetrically placed over a corner
Am. J. Phys. 84, 836–840 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4962226
An acoustic analog for a quantum mechanical level-splitting route to band formation
Am. J. Phys. 84, 841–847 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4962227
Time dependent electromagnetic fields and 4-dimensional Stokes' theorem
Am. J. Phys. 84, 848–857 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4962239
On the role of self-adjointness in the continuum formulation of topological quantum phases
Am. J. Phys. 84, 858–868 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4961500
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