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Rev. 115, 485–491 (1959)
48. M.V. Berry, R.G. Chambers, M.D. Large, C. Upstill, J.C. Walmsley, Wavefront dislocations in
the Aharonov-Bohm effect and its water wave analogue. Eur. J. Phys. 1, 154–162 (1980)
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vorticity and the Aharonov-Bohm effect. I. Phys. Rev. E. 60, 4908–4916 (1999)
50. F. López-Tejeira, S.G. Rodrigo, L. Martin-Moreno, F.J. Garcia-Vidal, E. Devaux, T.W. Ebbesen,
J.R. Krenn, I.P. Radko, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, M.U. González, J.C. Weeber, A. Dereux, Efficient
unidirectional nanoslit couplers for surface plasmons. Nat. Phys. 3, 324–328 (2007)
51. L. Aigouy, P. Lalanne, J.P. Hugonin, G. Julié, V. Mathet, M. Mortier, Near-field analysis of
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319–321 (1984)
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optical vortices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203601–4 (2007)
56. N.D. Mermin, The topological theory of defects in ordered media. Rev. Mod. Phys. 51, 591–648
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Bose-Einstein condensates. Phys. Rev. A 75, 013621–10 (2007)
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local deformations in graphene. Nature. Phys. 7, 810–815 (2011)
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defects: theory and experiments near the onset of weak turbulence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1237–
1240 (1989)
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spin-orbit encoders for photons. Opt. Lett. 36, 719–721 (2011)
63. J.F. Nye, M.V. Berry, Dislocations in wave trains. Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A, 336, 165–190
(1974)
64. L. Yin, V.K. Vlasko-Vlasov, J. Pearson, J.M. Hiller, J. Hua, U. Welp, D.E. Brown, C.W. Kimball,
Subwavelength focusing and guiding of surface plasmons. Nano Lett. 5, 1399–1402 (2005)
65. J.-Y. Laluet, A. Drezet, C. Genet, T.W. Ebbesen, Generation of surface plasmons at single
subwavelength slits: from slit to ridge plasmon. N. J. Phys. 10, 105014–9 (2008)
66. R. Zia, M.L. Brongersma, Surface plasmon polariton analogue to Young’s double-slit experiment. Nature. Nanotechnol. 2, 426–429 (2007)
67. N. Shitrit, S. Nechayev, V. Kleiner, E. Hasman, Spin-dependent plasmonics based on interfering
topological defects. Nano Lett. 12, 1620–1623 (2012)
68. O. Hosten, P. Kwiat, Observation of the spin hall effect of light via weak measurements. Science
319, 787–790 (2008)
69. M. Hentschel, M. Saliba, R. Vogelgesang, H. Giessen, A.P. Alivisatos, N. Liu, Transition from
isolated to collective modes in plasmonic oligomers. Nano Lett. 10, 2721–2726 (2010)
70. S.A. Maier, M.L. Brongersma, P.G. Kik, H.A. Atwater, Observation of near-field coupling in
metal nanoparticle chains using far-field polarization spectroscopy. Phys. Rev. B 65, 193408–4
(2002)
71. R. Gordon, A.G. Brolo, A. McKinnon, A. Rajora, B. Leathem, K.L. Kavanagh, Strong polarization in the optical transmission through elliptical nanohole arrays. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92,
037401–4 (2004)