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Magnetic field topology frozen in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and its breakage in near ideal MHD are reviewed in two parts. The first part gives a physically complete description of the frozen in field topology, taking magnetic flux…

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The subject of this work is a three-dimensional topological field theory with a non-semisimple group of gauge symmetry with observables consisting in the holonomies of connections around three closed loops. The connections are a linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-25 Franco Ferrari , Marcin R. Piatek , Yani Zhao

We theoretically introduce a quasi-1D magnetic heterostructure of alternating 2D topological and normal insulator strips. Its low-energy physics is governed by a hybrid Hamiltonian intertwining the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger and Shockley models,…

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Classification of matter through topological phases and topological edge states between distinct materials has been a subject of great interest recently. While lattices have been the main setting for these studies, a relatively unexplored…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Jeffrey B. Parker , J. W. Burby , J. B. Marston , Steven M. Tobias

Magnetized orbifolds play an important role in compactifications of string theories and higher-dimensional field theories to four dimensions. Magnetic flux leads to chiral fermions, it can be a source of supersymmetry breaking and it is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Wilfried Buchmuller , Markus Dierigl , Yoshiyuki Tatsuta

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

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…

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Magnetic flux plays an important role in compactifications of field and string theories in two ways, it generates a multiplicity of chiral fermion zero modes and it can break supersymmetry. We derive the complete four-dimensional effective…

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The design of a magnetic field source that can switch from a high field to a low field configuration by rotation by $90^\circ$ of a set of iron pieces is investigated using topology optimization. A Halbach cylinder is considered as the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-11 R. Bjørk , A. R. Insinga

Topological order in two-dimensional systems is studied by combining the braid group formalism with a gauge invariance analysis. We show that flux insertions (or large gauge transformations) pertinent to the toroidal topology induce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Sato , Mahito Kohmoto , Yong-Shi Wu

The transport on top of a periodic two-dimensional hexagonal magnetic pattern of (i) a single macroscopic steel sphere, (ii) a doublet of wax/magnetite composite spheres, and (iii) an immiscible mixture of ferrofluid droplets with a…

The singularities of an irrotational magnetic field are lines of electric current. This property derives from the relationship between vector fields and the topology of the underlying three-space and allows for a definition of {cosmic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Maurice Kleman , Jonathan M. Robbins

We examine the dynamics of magnetic flux tubes containing non-trivial field line braiding (or linkage), using mathematical and computational modelling, in the context of testable predictions for the laboratory and their significance for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 D. I. Pontin , S. Candelaresi , A. J. B. Russell , G. Hornig

We study magnetic geodesic flows invariant under rotations on the 2-sphere. The dynamical system is given by a generic pair of functions $(f,\Lambda)$ in one variable. Topology of the Liouville fibration of the given integrable system near…

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The paper reviews the notion of $n+\frac{1}{2}$D non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems, portraying their dynamics as the flow of the Reeb field related to a closed two-form of maximal rank on a cosymplectic manifold, and naturally decomposing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Nathan Duignan , David Perrella , David Pfefferlé

Bloch's theorem is the centerpiece of topological band theory, which itself has defined an era of quantum materials research. However, Bloch's theorem is broken by a perpendicular magnetic field, making it difficult to study topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Aaron Chew , B. Andrei Bernevig

We propose and analyze a physical system that naturally admits two-dimensional topological nearly flat bands. Our approach utilizes an array of three-level dipoles (effective S = 1 spins) driven by inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-28 Norman Y. Yao , Chris R. Laumann , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Steven D. Bennett , Eugene Demler , Peter Zoller , Mikhail D. Lukin

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

Integrable or near-integrable magnetic fields are prominent in the design of plasma confinement devices. Such a field is characterized by the existence of a singular foliation consisting entirely of invariant submanifolds. A regular leaf,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Joshua W. Burby , Nathan Duignan , James D. Meiss