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most citedClassification of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Hopfions by Algebraic Type

45 citations · 142 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

The quest for CMB signatures of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

Eve Bodnia, Vlad Isenbaev, Kellan Colburn +2

Circles of low-variance and Hawking points in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), resulting from black hole mergers and black hole evaporation, respectively, in a previous cycle…

gr-qc2017★ 10 cited

Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes

Yoni BenTov, Joe Swearngin

We present an exact solution of Einstein's equation that describes the gravitational shockwave of a massless particle on the horizon of a Kerr-Newman black hole. The backreacted me…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 39 cited

Self-organizing Knotted Magnetic Structures in Plasma

C. B. Smiet, S. Candelaresi, A. Thompson +3

We perform full-MHD simulations on various initially helical configurations and show that they reconfigure into a state where the magnetic field lines span nested toroidal surfaces…

gr-qc2014★ 45 cited

Classification of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Hopfions by Algebraic Type

Amy Thompson, Alexander Wickes, Joe Swearngin +1

We extend the definition of hopfions to include a class of spin- fields and use this to introduce the electromagnetic and gravitational hopfions of different algebraic types. Th…

gr-qc2014★ 21 cited

Linked and Knotted Gravitational Radiation

Amy Thompson, Joe Swearngin, Dirk Bouwmeester

We show that the torus knot topology is inherent in electromagnetic and gravitational radiation by constructing spin- fields based on this topology from the elementary states of…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 16 cited

Constructing a class of topological solitons in magnetohydrodynamics

Amy Thompson, Joe Swearngin, Alexander Wickes +1

We present a class of topological plasma configurations characterized by their toroidal and poloidal winding numbers, and respectively. The special case of and…

gr-qc2013★ 8 cited

Gravitational Hopfions

Joe Swearngin, Amy Thompson, Alexander Wickes +2

The electromagnetic hopfion (EM hopfion) is a topologically nontrivial solution to the vacuum Maxwell equations with the property that any two field lines belonging to either the e…