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The Life of a Vortex Knot
Dustin Kleckner, Martin Scheeler, William T. M. Irvine
The idea that the knottedness (hydrodynamic Helicity) of a fluid flow is conserved has a long history in fluid mechanics. The quintessential example of a knotted flow is a knotted…
Fractionalization of Interstitials in Curved Colloidal Crystals
William T. M. Irvine, Mark J. Bowick, Paul M. Chaikin
Understanding the out-of equilibrium behaviour of point defects in crystals, yields insights into the nature and fragility of the ordered state, as well as being of great practical…
Tying knots in light fields
Hridesh Kedia, Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Daniel Peralta-Salas +1
We construct a new family of null solutions to Maxwell's equations in free space whose field lines encode all torus knots and links. The evolution of these null fields, analogous t…
Orientation-dependent handedness and chiral design
Efi Efrati, William T. M. Irvine
Chirality occupies a central role in fields ranging from biological self-assembly to the design of optical metamaterials. The definition of chirality, as given by Lord Kelvin, asso…