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The Correspondence Principle: Periodic Orbits from Quantum Mechanics

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The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light

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Provost, D. (1997). The Correspondence Principle: Periodic Orbits from Quantum Mechanics. In: Jeffers, S., Roy, S., Vigier, JP., Hunter, G. (eds) The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5682-0_27

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