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What are good non-paraxial gaussian-beam-like solutions of the Helmholtz equation?
I am playing around with some optics manipulations and I am looking for beams of light which are roughly gaussian in nature but which go beyond the paraxial regime and which include non-paraxial ...
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Is mathematical rigour irrelevant in most physics fields? [duplicate]
Are mathematical notions like closed sets, limits of sequences, measures, and function spaces basically irrelevant in the day to day work of a physicist? Naturally, such concepts are the foundations ...
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Are there Non-conformal maps encountered in Physics?
We always encounter Conformal maps in Physics, may be they are easier to study, but are there Non-Conformal transformations encountered in Physics anywhere?
if they are encountered, where are they ...
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