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Topological spin configurations, such as soliton-like spin texture and Dirac electron assemblies, have emerged in recent years in both fundamental science and technological applications. Achieving stable topological spin textures at…

The Hopf fibration is an important object in mathematics and physics. A landmark discovery in topology and a fundamental object in the theory of Lie groups, the Hopf fibration has a wide variety of physical applications including magnetic…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-12-06 David W. Lyons

Knots and links play a crucial role in understanding topology and discreteness in nature. In magnetic systems, twisted, knotted and braided vortex tubes manifest as Skyrmions, Hopfions, or screw dislocations. These complex textures are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Maria Azhar , Sandra C. Shaju , Ross Knapman , Alessandro Pignedoli , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Magnetic hopfions are non-collinear spin textures that are characterized by an integer topological invariant, called Hopf index. The three-dimensional magnetic solitons can be thought of as a tube with a twisted magnetization that has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Börge Göbel , Samir Lounis

This work provides the first experimental elucidation of quantum topological effects in individual hopfions, establishing their potential as building blocks for three-dimensional topological quantum spintronics. The observed Non-Abelian…

The interplay of nonlinearity and topology results in many novel and emergent properties across a number of physical systems such as chiral magnets, nematic liquid crystals, Bose-Einstein condensates, photonics, high energy physics, etc. It…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-25 A. Saxena , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas-Maraver

Topology is a powerful framework for controlling and manipulating light, minimizing detrimental perturbations on the photonic properties. Combining nanophotonics with topological concepts presents opportunities for both fundamental physics…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-29 Grazia Salerno

In this paper, we study topological properties of 3D lattice dimer model. We demonstrate, that the dimer model on a bipartite lattice possesses topological defects, which are exactly characterized by Hopf invariant. We derive its explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Grigory Bednik

Magnetic hopfion is three-dimensional (3D) topological soliton with novel spin structure that would enable exotic dynamics. Here we study the current driven 3D dynamics of a magnetic hopfion with unit Hopf index in a frustrated magnet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Yizhou Liu , Wentao Hou , Xiufeng Han , Jiadong Zang

Three-dimensional topological spin textures have attracted growing interest due to their rich geometry and potential for functional magnetic phenomena. In this work, we propose the concept of symmetry-transforming magnetic models as a novel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-19 Sandra C Shaju , Maria Azhar , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Mysterious high temperature structureless transitions in (TMTTF)2X compounds have been discovered in mid 80's (Coulon, Lawersanne,vet al), but left unexplained and abandoned, together with other warnings from structural effects (Moret,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Serguei Brazovskii

Recently the ferroelectric anomaly (Nad, Monceau, et al) followed by the charge disproportionation (Brown, et al) have been discovered in (TMTTF)2X compounds. The corresponding theory of the combined Mott-Hubbard state describes both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Brazovskii

Halide perovskites emerged as a revolutionary family of high-quality semiconductors for solar energy harvesting and energy-efficient lighting. There is mounting evidence that the exceptional optoelectronic properties of these materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-24 Jon Lafuente-Bartolome , Chao Lian , Feliciano Giustino

We study the collision of two hopfions or Hopf-Ra\~nada electromagnetic fields. The superposition of two of such fields, travelling in opposite directions, yields different topology for the electric and magnetic field lines. Controlling the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 M. Arrayás , J. L. Trueba

Magnetic hopfions are three-dimensional topological solitons -- knotted, vortex-like spin configurations. In chiral magnets, hopfions can appear as isolated structures or they can be linked to skyrmion strings. Previous studies employed a…

It is known that, under appropriate conditions, mean-field interactions can be canceled in binary BEC, leading to the formation of the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) superfluid, in which the nonlinearity is solely represented by the quartic LHY term.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-17 Liangwei Dong , Mingjing Fan , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

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

Three-dimensional toroidal precession solitons with a nonzero Hopf index, which uniformly move along the anisotropy axis in a uniaxial ferromagnet, have been found. The structure and existence region of the solitons have been numerically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-04 A. B. Borisov , F. N. Rybakov

In ferroelectrics, complex interactions among various degrees of freedom enable the condensation of topologically protected polarization textures. Known as ferroelectric solitons, these particle-like structures represent a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-02 V. Govinden , P. R. Tong , X. Guo , Q. Zhang , S. Mantri , S. Prokhorenko , Y. Nahas , Y. Wu , L. Bellaiche , H. Tian , Z. Hong , D. Sando , V. Nagarajan

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