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Physics Letters A

On the “physical reality of electromagnetic potentials?”

Robert Golub, J. P. Carrico, T. S. Stein, M. C. Weisskopf

Published Oct 1, 1967• 3 citations
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10.1016/0375-9601(67)90005-9

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