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Polarisation by Sander Konijnenberg, Aurèle J.L. Adam and H. Paul Urbach by
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Chapter of Interactive Optics by Sander Konijnenberg, Aurèle J.L. Adam and H. Paul Urbach. Whole-work authors apply. Locators: creating polarization states and wave plates; equation (273) for birefringent relative phase. No separate chapter date is established.
Section 12.22 of Classical Electromagnetism by Richard Fitzpatrick. Equations (1974)–(1981) cover beaming, power and pulse compression. Whole-work author credit applies.
Section 1.7 of Classical Electromagnetism by Richard Fitzpatrick. Equations (71)–(76) give the Lorenz-gauge wave equations and causal potentials. Whole-work author credit applies.
Section 9.6 of Classical Electromagnetism by Richard Fitzpatrick. Equations (1289)–(1293) derive the bound-charge Rayleigh limit and frequency scaling. The sphere polarizability and needle-orientation calculations in the solutions are separate derivations.
Mathematical Methods in Nanophotonics, MIT 18.369, Spring 2016 by Steven G. Johnson by
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Synchrotron Radiation in the Geant4 Physics Reference Manual by Geant4 Collaboration by
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Physics Reference Manual: Synchrotron radiation. The critical mode number is ; the critical-energy formula gives for a circular orbit in a perpendicular field. A development-manual web page, not an exam answer source.
Experimental determination of the superconducting pairing state in YBCO by D. A. Wollman and others by
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Primary paper, Experimental determination of the superconducting pairing state in YBCO from the phase coherence of YBCO-Pb dc SQUIDs, Physical Review Letters 71, 2134–2137. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2134
Pairing symmetry and flux quantization in a tricrystal superconducting ring by C. C. Tsuei and others by
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Primary paper on YBCO rings, Physical Review Letters 73, 593–596. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.593
Evidence for a Critical Velocity in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas by C. Raman and others by
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Primary moving-laser-obstacle experiment, Physical Review Letters 83, 2502–2505. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2502
Microscopic Derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau Equations in the Theory of Superconductivity by Lev Gor'kov by
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The size of the proton by Randolf Pohl and others by
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Institutional evaluated level table, Table 10.18 from evaluation 2004TI06. The first row gives ground-state and .
Institutional account distinguishing gravitational evidence for dark matter from proposed new-particle explanations.
On Continued Gravitational Contraction by J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder by
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Primary pressureless spherical-collapse calculation distinguishing finite comoving collapse time from the distant-coordinate description and progressively redshifted escaping light. Physical Review 56, 455–459 (1939). doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.56.455
Characterization of the brush regime for grafted polymer layers at the solid-liquid interface by P. Auroy and others by
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Physical Review Letters 66, 719–722. The abstract identifies end-grafted polydimethylsiloxane on porous silicon dioxide and reports thickness proportional to in a poor solvent and in a good solvent. The chemical system in that abstract differs from the polystyrene wording of the 2016 exam; the scaling comparison is unaffected.
Authored Cambridge DAMTP lecture notes: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.htm
Lectures on Landau Theory of Phase Transitions by Peter D. Olmsted by
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Authored lecture notes, dated 9 July 2015 on the title page. Section 4.2 covers the vector ferromagnet; §4.3, printed pp.10–13, develops the nematic tensor, rotational invariants and discontinuous transition. The tensor and coefficient normalization differs from and must be translated explicitly.
Entanglement of a Pair of Quantum Bits by Scott Hill and William K. Wootters by
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Original 1997 paper introducing the magic-basis concurrence description used here. Primary preprint: arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9703041 . Full text: arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9703041 . Eqs.(3)–(6) specify the phased Bell basis and its pure-state entropy relation.
Relation between the Anderson and Kondo Hamiltonians by John Robert Schrieffer and P. A. Wolff by
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Original 1966 article, Physical Review 149, 491. The abstract describes the canonical transformation connecting the two models in the small-mixing limit. Publisher: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.149.491 .
The Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics by David Tong by
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Chapter 1 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Sections 1.2–1.4 define energy-shell, canonical and grand canonical ensembles and their thermodynamic derivatives. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
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