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Magnetic field relaxation is determined by both the field's geometry and its topology. For relaxation processes, however, it turns out that its topology is a much more stringent constraint. As quantifier for the topology we use magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-18 Simon Candelaresi , Axel Brandenburg

Cloaking is a method of making obstacles undetectable. Here we cloak unit cells of a magnetic pattern squeezed into an otherwise periodic pattern from a magnetically driven colloidal flow. We apply a time-periodic external magnetic field…

We present a braided circuit topology framework for investigating topology and structural phase transitions in aggregates of semiflexible polymers. In the conventional approach to circuit topology, which specifically applies to single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Jonas Berx , Alireza Mashaghi

Knotted fields enrich a variety of physical phenomena, ranging from fluid flows, electromagnetic fields, to textures of ordered media. Maxwell's electrostatic equations, whose vacuum solution is mathematically known as a harmonic field,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-27 Xiuqing Duan , Zhenwei Yao

An expression for a third-order link integral of three magnetic fields is presented. It is a topological invariant and therefore an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. The integral generalizes existing expressions for third-order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gunnar Hornig , Christoph Mayer

Magnetic colloids can be driven with time-varying fields to form clusters and voids that re-organize over vastly different timescales. However, the driving force behind these non-equilibrium dynamics is not well-understood. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-29 Aleksandra Nelson , Dana M. Lobmeyer , Sibani L. Biswal , Evelyn Tang

Recent work suggests that topological features of certain quantum gravity theories can be interpreted as particles, matching the known fermions and bosons of the first generation in the Standard Model. This is achieved by identifying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Sundance Bilson-Thompson , Jonathan Hackett , Louis H. Kauffman

We present a general construction of all correlation functions of a two-dimensional rational conformal field theory, for an arbitrary number of bulk and boundary fields and arbitrary topologies. The correlators are expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Felder , J. Fr"ohlich , J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

We study the equivariant generalization of topological strings on toric manifolds, focusing in particular on defining the contributions of constant maps in the genus expansion of the partition function. This approach regularizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Luca Cassia , Kiril Hristov

Predicting the final state of turbulent plasma relaxation is an important challenge, both in astrophysical plasmas such as the Sun's corona and in controlled thermonuclear fusion. Recent numerical simulations of plasma relaxation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 A. R. Yeates , A. J. B. Russell , G. Hornig

Non-symmetric vacuum magnetic fields with closed magnetic field lines are of interest in the construction of stellarator equilibria. Beyond the result of D.Lortz (ZAMP \textbf{21}, 196 (1970)), few results are available. This work presents…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Harold Weitzner , Wrick Sengupta

We investigate characteristic features of both non-interacting and interacting electrons in a M\"{o}bius strip, the simplest possible one-sided topological system, in presence of an Aharonov-Bohm flux $\phi$. Using Hartree-Fock mean field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Madhumita Saha , Santanu K. Maiti

The concept of electric and magnetic field lines is intrinsically non-relativistic. Nonetheless, for certain types of fields satisfying certain geometric properties, field lines can be defined covariantly. More precisely, two…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-20 S. J. van Enk

The knowledge of magnetic topology is the key to understand magnetic energy release in astrophysics. Based on observed vector magnetograms, we have determined threedimensional (3D) topology skeleton of the magnetic fields in active region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui Zhao , Jing-Xiu Wang , Jun Zhang , Chi-Jie Xiao , Hai-Min Wang

Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Chris Prior , David MacTaggart

We derive a framework to apply topological quantum chemistry in systems subject to magnetic flux. We start by deriving the action of spatial symmetry operators in a uniform magnetic field, which extends Zak's magnetic translation groups to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin textures of potential interest for future information storage applications, and for such purposes, the control and understanding of single skyrmion creation is required. A scheme is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gen Yin , Yufan Li , Lingyao Kong , Roger K. Lake , C. L. Chien , Jiadong Zang

Symmetry-protected topological semimetals are at the focus of solid-state research due to their unconventional properties, for example, regarding transport. By investigating local two-band Bloch Hamiltonians in the spin-1/2 basis for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Andy Knoll , Carsten Timm

The energy of the stochastic magnetic field is bounded from below by a topological quantity expressing the degree of linkage of the field lines. When the bound is saturated one can assume that the storage of a certain magnetic energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Spineanu , M. Vlad

The helicity of a magnetic field is a fundamental property that is conserved in ideal MHD. It can be explored in the stellar context by mapping large-scale magnetic fields across stellar surfaces using Zeeman-Doppler imaging. A recent study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 K. Lund , M. Jardine , A. J. B. Russell , J. -F. Donati , R. Fares , C. P. Folsom