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Fusion and Fission of Particle-like Chiral Nematic Vortex Knots
Darian Hall, Jung-Shen Benny Tai, Louis H. Kauffman +1
Vortex knots have been seen decaying in many physical systems. Here we describe topologically protected vortex knots, which remain stable and undergo fusion and fission while conse…
Field-controlled dynamics of skyrmions and monopoles
Jung-Shen B. Tai, Andrew J. Hess, Jin-Sheng Wu +1
Magnetic monopoles, despite their ongoing experimental search as elementary particles, have inspired the discovery of analogous excitations in condensed matter systems. In chiral c…
Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics
Japinder Nijjer, Mrityunjay Kothari, Changhao Li +7
Active nematics are the nonequilibrium analog of passive liquid crystals in which anisotropic units consume free energy to drive emergent behavior. Similar to liquid crystal (LC) m…
Geometric transformation and three-dimensional hopping of Hopf solitons
Jung-Shen B. Tai, Jin-Sheng Wu, Ivan I. Smalyukh
3D topological solitons are marvels of mathematical physics that arise in theoretical models in elementary particle and nuclear physics, condensed matter, and cosmology. A particul…
Hopf solitons in helical and conical backgrounds of chiral magnetic solids
Robert Voinescu, Jung-Shen B. Tai, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Three-dimensional topological solitons attract a great deal of interest in fields ranging from particle physics to cosmology but remain experimentally elusive in solid-state magnet…
Three-dimensional crystals of adaptive knots
Jung-Shen B. Tai, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Starting from Gauss and Kelvin, knots in fields were postulated behaving like particles, but experimentally they were found only as transient features or required complex boundary…
Surface anchoring as a control parameter for stabilizing torons, skyrmions, twisted walls, fingers and their hybrids in chiral nematics
Jung-Shen B. Tai, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Chiral condensed matter systems, such as liquid crystals and magnets, exhibit a host of spatially localized topological structures that emerge from the medium's tendency to twist a…
Composite Skyrmion bags in two-dimensional materials
David Foster, Charles Kind, Paul J. Ackerman +3
Skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations, studied in various condensed matter systems and models of high-energy physics (HEP). They occur as stable spin textures in cert…
Static Hopf Solitons and Knotted Emergent Fields in Solid-State Noncentrosymmetric Magnetic Nanostructures
Jung-Shen B. Tai, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Two-dimensional topological solitons, commonly called Skyrmions, are extensively studied in solid-state magnetic nanostructures and promise many spintronics applications. However,…