 Momentum and winding modes (source code)

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= Momentum and winding modes
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For a compact boson of radius $R$, momentum number $n$ and winding number $w$ combine into left- and right-moving zero-mode momenta $p_L=n/R+wR$ and $p_R=n/R-wR$ in a common normalization.

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