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Coulomb gauge

In electromagnetism, the Coulomb gauge is the gauge fixing in which the vector potential satisfies

\nabla \cdot \vec{A}=0

where we are dealing with spatial vectors here.

This gauge has the disadvantage of the vector potential sometimes propagating faster than the speed of light. However, the vector potential can't be experimentally measured, only the resulting electric and magnetic fields, which do not propagate faster than c.

See also Lorentz gauge, Weyl gauge

01-04-2007 01:16:19
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