V Photon Wave Function

@article{BialynickiBirula1996VPW,  title={V Photon Wave Function},  author={Iwo Bialynicki-Birula},  journal={Progress in Optics},  year={1996},  volume={36},  pages={245-294},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17695022}}

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