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Heinz Hopf's famous fibrations of the 2n+1-sphere by great circles, the 4n+3-sphere by great 3-spheres, and the 15-sphere by great 7-spheres have a number of interesting properties. Besides providing the first examples of homotopically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Haggai Nuchi

Paradigmatic knotted solitons, Hopfions, that are characterized by topological Hopf invariant, are widely investigated in the diverse areas ranging from high energy physics, cosmology and astrophysics to biology, magneto- and hydrodynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 I. Luk'yanchuk , Y. Tikhonov , A. Razumnaya , V. M. Vinokur

Photons play essential roles in fundamental physics and practical technologies. They have become one of the attractive informaiton carriers for quantum computation and quantum simulation. Recently, various photonic degrees of freedom…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-22 Mu Yang , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

The study of dissipative systems has attracted great attention, as dissipation engineering has become an important candidate towards manipulating light in classical and quantum ways. Here,we investigate the behavior of a topological system…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-22 Zhaohui Dong , Xianfeng Chen , Avik Dutt , Luqi Yuan

Topological wave structures, such as vortices and skyrmions, appear in a variety of quantum and classical wave fields, including optics and acoustics. In particular, optical vortices have found numerous applications ranging from quantum…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Bo Wang , Zhiyuan Che , Cheng Cheng , Caili Tong , Lei Shi , Yijie Shen , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Jian Zi

The development and characterization of three-dimensional (3D) topological magnetic textures has become an important topic in modern magnetism both for fundamental and technological perspectives. Among the novel 3D spin textures, skyrmionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 M. Grelier , R. Battistelli , H. Popescu , F. Godel , A. Vecchiola , S. Collin , C. Léveillé , K. Bouzehouane , F. Büttner , V. Cros , N. Jaouen , N. Reyren

This article gives the construction and complete classification of all three-dimensional spherical manifolds, and orders them by decreasing volume, in the context of multiconnected universe models with positive spatial curvature. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Evelise Gausmann , Roland Lehoucq , Jean-Pierre Luminet , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Jeffrey Weeks

Skyrmions with topologically stable configurations have shown a promising route toward magnetic and photonic materials for information processing due to their defect-immune and low-driven energy. However, the practical application of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Liyun Cao , Sheng Wan , Yi Zeng , Yifan Zhu , Badreddine Assouar

Topological magnetic (anti)skrymions are robust string-like objects heralded as potential components in next-generation topological spintronics devices due to their manipulability via low-energy stimuli such as magnetic fields, heat, and…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter that can be viewed as '3D graphene'. In contrast to two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in graphene or on the surface of 3D topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-05 Z. K. Liu , B. Zhou , Z. J. Wang , H. M. Weng , D. Prabhakaran , S. -K. Mo , Y. Zhang , Z. X. Shen , Z. Fang , X. Dai , Z. Hussain , Y. L. Chen

Skyrmions are topological quasi-particles characterised by local spin textures, which are considered to be robust against structural deformation. N\'eel and Bloch states are famous examples of skyrmions, which exhibit radical and chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Shinichi Saito

We show that band topology can dramatically change the photophysics of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. For systems in which states near the band extrema are of multiple orbitals character and the spinors describing the orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Ting Cao , Meng Wu , Steven G. Louie

We investigate topological supersolidity of dipolar Fermi gases in a spin-dependent 2D optical lattice. Numerical results show that the topological supersolid states can be synthesized via the combination of topological superfluid states…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-02 Huan-Yu Wang , Zhen Zheng , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

One-dimensional superlattices with periodic spatial modulations of onsite potentials or tunneling coefficients can exhibit a variety of properties associated with topology or symmetry. Recent developments of ring-shaped optical lattices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-21 Yan He , Kevin Wright , Said Kouachi , Chih-Chun Chien

Topological photonic systems, with their ability to host states protected against disorder and perturbation, allow us to do with photons what topological insulators do with electrons. Topological photonics can refer to electronic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Marie S. Rider , Samuel J. Palmer , Simon R. Pocock , Xiaofei Xiao , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

Topologically protected gapless edge/surface states are phases of quantum matter which behave as massless Dirac fermions, immunizing against disorders and continuous perturbations. Recently, a new class of topological insulators (TIs) with…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-30 Baizhan Xia , Shengjie Zheng , Liang Tong , Junrui Jiao , Guiju Duan , Dejie Yu

Photons are among the most important carriers of quantum information owing to their rich degrees of freedom (DoFs), including various spatiotemporal structures. The ability to characterize these DoFs, as well as the hidden correlations…

We study the properties of dipolar fermions trapped in one-dimensional bichromatic optical lattices and show the existence of fractional topological states in the presence of strong dipole-dipole interactions. We find some interesting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-28 Zhihao Xu , Linhu Li , Shu Chen

Optical Skyrmions have recently garnered much interest providing a potential avenue for high capacity, robust topological information transfer. Typically, Skyrmions are derived from the coupling of just two degrees of freedom (DoFs)…

Topological features - global properties not discernible locally - emerge in systems from liquid crystals to magnets to fractional quantum Hall systems. Deeper understanding of the role of topology in physics has led to a new class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 M. Hafezi , S. Mittal , J. Fan , A. Migdall , J. Taylor