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We reveal that Hopf solitons can be stabilized in rotating atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The Hopfion is a matter-wave vortex complex which carries two independent winding numbers. Such a topological solitonic structure results from a…

Hopfions--three-dimensional topological solitons with knotted spin texture--have recently garnered attention in topological magnetism due to their unique topology characterized by the Hopf number $H$, a topological invariant derived from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shoya Kasai , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome

We study scattering of itinerant electrons off a magnetic hopfion in a three-dimensional metallic magnet described by a magnetization vector $\mathbf S(\mathbf r)$. A hopfion is a confined topological soliton of $\mathbf S(\mathbf r)$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Domenico Andreoli , Jiadong Zang

Magnetic hopfions are localized magnetic solitons with non-zero 3D topological charge (Hopf index). Here I present an analytical calculation of the toroidal magnetic hopfion vector potential, emergent magnetic field, the Hopf index, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Konstantin Y. Guslienko

Magnetic hopfions are localized magnetic solitons with a nonzero 3D topological charge (Hopf index). Herein, an analytical calculation of the magnetic hopfion gyrovector is presented and it is shown that it does not vanish even in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Dariia Popadiuk , Elena Tartakovskaya , Maciej Krawczyk , Kostyantyn Guslienko

The Faddeev-Hopf model [1] supporting Hopfions was shown to emerge in the low-energy limit of four-dimensional scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED) with two charged scalar fields [2, 3]. Faddeev and Noemi conjectured that the Hopfions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 Chao-Hsiang Sheu , Mikhail Shifman

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures which have attracted intense research for their fundamentally novel physics and potential applications as spintronic information carriers. The stability which makes them so potentially useful is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 William S. Parker , Jacques A. Reddinger , Benjamin J. McMorran

Solitonic symmetry has been believed to follow the homotopy-group classification of topological solitons. Here, we point out a more sophisticated algebraic structure when solitons of different dimensions coexist in the spectrum. We uncover…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Shi Chen , Yuya Tanizaki

Magnetic hopfions are three-dimensional localized magnetic topological solitons which can exist in the bulk of magnetic materials. Based on a Ritz model for magnetic hopfions in a chiral magnet, the unpolarized magnetic small-angle neutron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Konstantin L. Metlov , Andreas Michels

We study the stability of Hopfions embedded in a certain modification Ginzburg-Landau model of two equally charged condensates. It has been shown by Ward [Phys. Rev. D66, 041701(R) (2002)] that certain modification of the ordinary model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 Juha Jäykkä

Topological magnetic structures, such as Hopfions, are central to three-dimensional magnetism, but their characterization in complex geometries remains challenging. We introduce a robust finite-element method for calculating the Hopf index…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Louis Gallard , Riccardo Hertel

Magnetic solitons are nonlinear, local excitations in magnetic systems. In this study, we theoretically and numerically investigate the properties and generation of one-dimensional (1D) topologically trivial magnetic solitons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Kai-Tao Huang , X. S. Wang

Three-dimensional (3D) topological states resemble truly localised, particle-like objects in physical space. Among the richest such structures are 3D skyrmions and hopfions that realise integer topological numbers in their configuration via…

We construct new solutions of the Faddeev-Skyrme-Maxwell model, which represent Hopf solitons coupled to magnetic fluxes. It turns out that coupling to the magnetic field allows for transmutations of the solitons, however, the results…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-27 A. Samoilenka , Ya. Shnir

Hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) topological textures characterized by the integer Hopf invariant $Q_H$. Here, we present the realization of a zero--field, stable hopfion spin texture in a magnetic system consisting of a chiral magnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yizhou Liu , Roger Lake , Jiadong Zang

We study the stability of Hopfions embedded in the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) model of two oppositely charged components. It has been shown by Babaev et al. [Phys. Rev. B 65, 100512 (2002)] that this model contains the Faddeev-Skyrme (FS) model,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-26 Juha Jäykkä , Jarmo Hietarinta , Petri Salo

We discuss the $U(1)$ gauged version of the 3+1 dimensional Faddeev-Skyrme model supplemented by the Maxwell term. We show that there exist axially symmetric static solutions coupled to the non-integer toroidal flux of magnetic field, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-21 Ya. Shnir , G. Zhilin

The three-dimensional emergent magnetic field $\textbf{B}^e$ of a magnetic hopfion gives rise to emergent magneto-multipoles in a similar manner to the multipoles of classical electromagnetic field. Here, we show that the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Yizhou Liu , Hikaru Watanabe , Naoto Nagaosa

Knots and links are fascinating and intricate topological objects. Their influence spans from DNA and molecular chemistry to vortices in superfluid helium, defects in liquid crystals and cosmic strings in the early universe. Here, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Dong-Ling Deng , Sheng-Tao Wang , Kai Sun , L. -M. Duan

An electron moving in a magnetically ordered background feels an effective magnetic field that can be both stronger and more rapidly varying than typical externally applied fields. One consequence is that insulating magnetic materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel E. Moore , Ying Ran , Xiao-Gang Wen