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  "abstract": "Chiral connectedness describes chiral structures that transform smoothly into their mirror images while never being achiral. The phenomenon is illustrated with a two-parameter family of complex vector fields E representing paraxial optical Gaussian beams. E is chiral everywhere in the parameter plane except the origin. During a circuit of the origin, E reverses chirality twice without being achiral. Different aspects of chirality are associated with the vector and scalar nature of E; natural measures of each, and their combinations, change sign at parameter values where E is chiral. The analysis is simpler for planar fields E, but their chiralities are essentially the same when the subtleties of three dimensions are included.",
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      "name": "M. V. Berry"
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    {
      "name": "K. Y. Bliokh"
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      "name": "J. M. Robbins"
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  "title": "Wave chirality reversal without passing achirality",
  "title_text": "Wave chirality reversal without passing achirality",
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