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Spatiotemporal representation of a two-vortex reconnection as a single rotating vortex
Jordan M. Adams
Reconnections and rotations of lines are dual descriptions of the same saddle-shaped spacetime surface. We show that a reconnection between two line occurring over time is a single…
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Knotted spacetime electromagnetic vortex unlinking and unknotting with vector and scalar reconnections and field twist compensation
Jordan M. Adams
Optical vortex knots have been realized in monochromatic laser beams, but monochromatic fields are stationary and their topology is frozen. Here we show that knotted spatiotemporal…