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5 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…