Diversity of Knot Solitons in Liquid Crystals Manifested by Linking of Preimages in Torons and Hopfions
Topological solitons are knots in continuous physical fields classified by nonzero Hopf index values. Despite arising in theories that span many branches of physics, from elementary particles to condensed matter and cosmology, they remain experimentally elusive and poorly understood. We introduce a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.011006 |