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Vortex knots have been seen decaying in many physical systems. Here we describe topologically protected vortex knots, which remain stable and undergo fusion and fission while conserving a topological invariant analogous to that of baryon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-11 Darian Hall , Jung-Shen Benny Tai , Louis H. Kauffman , Ivan I. Smalyukh

We study vortex knotting in the Faddeev-Skyrme model. Starting with a straight vortex line twisted around its axis we follow its evolution under dissipative energy minimization dynamics. With low twist per unit length the vortex forms a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-05 Jarmo Hietarinta , Juha Jäykkä , Petri Salo

In this paper we determine the velocity, the energy and estimate writhe and twist helicity contributions of vortex filaments in the shape of torus knots and unknots (toroidal and poloidal coils) in a perfect fluid. Calculations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Maggioni , S. Alamri , C. F. Barenghi , R. L. Ricca

We study the existence, stability, and dynamics of vortex dipole and quadrupole configurations in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the surface of a torus. For this purpose we use, in addition to the full two-dimensional NLS on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-13 J. D'Ambroise , R. Carretero-González , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis

The existence of stable links and knots is demonstrated in three-dimensional, bistable, chemical media. The reaction-diffusion medium segregates into regions of high and low concentration separated by sharp interfaces. The interfaces repel…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Anatoly Malevanets , Raymond Kapral

Motivated by experiments performed in superfluid helium, we study numerically the motion of toroidal bundles of vortex filaments in an inviscid fluid. We find that the evolution of these large-scale vortex structures involves the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. H. Wacks , A. W. Baggaley , C. F. Barenghi

We investigate the collective dynamics of multivortex assemblies in a two dimensional (2D) toroidal fluid film of distinct curvature and topology. The incompressible and inviscid nature of the fluid allows a Hamiltonian description of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-15 Aswathy K R , Udaya Maurya , Surya Teja Gavva , Rickmoy Samanta

We inspect a particular gauge field theory model that describes the properties of a variety of physical systems, including a charge neutral two-component plasma, a Gross-Pitaevskii functional of two charged Cooper pair condensates, and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lübcke , S. M. Nasir , A. Niemi , K. Torokoff

It is shown by numerical simulations within a regularized Biot-Savart law that dynamical systems of two or three leapfrogging coaxial quantum vortex rings having a core width $\xi$ and initially placed near a torus of radii $R_0$ and $r_0$,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-27 Victor P. Ruban

In this paper, we are concerned with the uniqueness and nonlinear stability of vortex rings for the 3D Euler equation. By utilizing Arnold 's variational principle for steady states of Euler equations and concentrated compactness method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Daomin Cao , Shanfa Lai , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

We consider the Schr\"odinger system with Newton-type interactions that was derived by R. Klein, A. Majda and K. Damodaran [18] to modelize the dynamics of N nearly parallel vortex filaments in a 3-dimensional homogeneous incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Valeria Banica , Evelyne Miot

The idea that the knottedness (hydrodynamic Helicity) of a fluid flow is conserved has a long history in fluid mechanics. The quintessential example of a knotted flow is a knotted vortex filament, however, owing to experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Dustin Kleckner , Martin Scheeler , William T. M. Irvine

The relative stability of the vortex, onion and ferromagnetic phases in nanorings is examined as a function of the ring geometry. Total energy calculations are carried out analytically, based on simple models for each configuration. Results…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Landeros , J. Escrig , D. Altbir , M. Bahiana , J. d'Albuquerque e Castro

Vortex rings are remarkably stable structures occurring in numerous systems: for example in turbulent gases, where they are at the origin of weather phenomena [1]; in fluids with implications for biology [2]; in electromagnetic discharges…

In gauge theories with an extended Higgs sector the classical equations of motion can have solutions that describe stable, closed finite energy vortices. Such vortices separate two disjoint Higgs vacua, with one of the vacua embedded in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Antti J. Niemi , Kaupo Palo , Sami Virtanen

Streamlines, vortex lines and magnetic flux tubes in turbulent fluids and plasmas display a great amount of coiling, twisting and linking, raising the question as to whether their topological complexity (continually created and destroyed by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-09 R. G. Cooper , M. Mesgarnezhad , A. W. Baggaley , C. F. Barenghi

We address the existence, stability, and dynamics of single-ring and multi-ring vorticity-carrying necklace solitons under the action of the Kerr nonlinearity and a Bessel-lattice potential modulated in the azimuthal direction. The model…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Ruolan Zhao , Jing Chen , Boris A. Malomed , Rongcao Yang

We consider as base flow the stationary vortex filament solution obtained by Castillo- Castellanos et al. (2021) in the far-wake of a rotor with tip-splitting blades. The cases of a single blade and of two blades with a hub vortex are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-30 Andrés Castillo-Castellanos , Stéphane Le Dizès

Instabilities of vortex-ring-bright coherent structures in harmonically trapped two-component three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates are studied numerically within the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations and interpreted analytically.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-09 Victor P. Ruban , Wenlong Wang , Christopher Ticknor , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We establish stability and characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) vortex ring-shaped quantum droplets (QDs) formed by binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The system is modeled by the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with the cubic term…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-04 Bin Liu , Yi xi Chen , Ao wei Yang , Xiao yan Cai , Yan Liu , Zhi huan Luo , Xi zhou Qin , Xun da Jiang , Yong yao Li , Boris A. Malomed