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Periodic potentials with flat bands in their spectra support strongly localized nonlinear excitations. Although a perfectly flat band cannot exist in a continuous system, a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a Zeeman…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-22 Chenhui Wang , Yongping Zhang , Vladimir V. Konotop

We review the recent, mainly theoretical, progress in the study of topological nodal line semimetals in three dimensions. In these semimetals, the conduction and the valence bands cross each other along a one-dimensional curve in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

The recent discovery of topological insulators has revived interest in the topological properties of insulating band structures. In this work, we extend the topological classification of insulating band structures to include certain point…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Liang Fu

The emergence of coherent rotating structures is a phenomenon characteristic of both classical and quantum 2D turbulence. In this work we show theoretically that the coherent vortex structures that emerge in decaying 2D quantum turbulence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-06 Matthew T. Reeves , Thomas P. Billam , Brian P. Anderson , Ashton S. Bradley

Topological phases of matter is a natural place for encoding robust qubits for quantum computation. In this work we extend the newly introduced class of qubits based on valence-bond solid models with SPT (symmetry-protected topological)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Dong-Sheng Wang

We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial vortex states of a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interaction confined by a three-dimensional optical lattice. Such vortex-like structures include planar vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We present a discussion of embedded vortices in general Yang-Mills theories. The origin of a family structure of solutions is shown to be group theoretic in nature and a procedure for its determination is developed. Vortex stability can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Nathan F. Lepora , Anne-Christine Davis

Recent topological band theory distinguishes electronic band insulators with respect to various symmetries and topological invariants, most commonly, the time reversal symmetry and the $\rm Z_2$ invariant. The interface of two topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 S. U. Piatrusha , E. S. Tikhonov , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , V. S. Khrapai

We discuss the structure of a vortex in a superfluid Bose liquid with a suppressed Bose-Einstein condensate and an intensive pair correlated condensate. The vortex represents the pair of half-quantum vortices topologically confined by the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

The spontaneous formation of lattice structure of quantized vortices is a characteristic feature of superfluidity in closed systems under thermal equilibrium. In exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a typical example of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-26 F. X. Sun , Z. X. Niu , Q. H. Gong , Q. Y. He , W. Zhang

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

The color-flavor locked phase of high density QCD admits non-Abelian vortices, that are superfluid vortices with confined color-magnetic fluxes. Vortex solutions were thus far constructed in an axially symmetric Ansatz with common vortex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Sven Bjarke Gudnason , Muneto Nitta

In this review, we give an overview of the experimental and theoretical advances in the physics of quantized vortices in dilute atomic-gas Bose--Einstein condensates in a trapping potential, especially focusing on experimental research…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-10 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

We analyze the structure and stability of singular singly quantized vortices in a rotating spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the singular vortex can be energetically stable in both the ferromagnetic and polar phases despite the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-13 Justin Lovegrove , Magnus O. Borgh , Janne Ruostekoski

The structure and stability of vortices in hybrid atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates is analyzed in the framework of a two-component Gross-Pitaevskii-type model that describes the stimulated Raman-induced photoassociation process.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tristram J. Alexander , Yuri S. Kivshar , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Paul S. Julienne

Knots are familiar entities that appear at a captivating nexus of art, technology, mathematics, and science. As topologically stable objects within field theories, they have been speculatively proposed as explanations for diverse persistent…

We propose a class of pure states of two-dimensional lattice systems realizing topological order associated with unitary rational vertex operator algebras. We show that the states are well-defined in the thermodynamic limit and have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-08 Nikita Sopenko

Topological states of matter are robust quantum phases, characterised by propagating or localised edge states in an insulating bulk. Topological boundary states can be triggered by various mechanisms, for example by strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. E. Freeney , J. J. van den Broeke , A. J. J. Harsveld van der Veen , I. Swart , C. Morais Smith

Experiments on dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates have recently reported the observation of supersolidity. Although quantized vortices constitute a key probe of superfluidity, their observability in dipolar supersolids is largely prevented…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-04 Marija Šindik , Alessio Recati , Santo Maria Roccuzzo , Luis Santos , Sandro Stringari

We apply the homotopy group theory in classifying the topological defects in atomic spin-1 and spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates. The nature of the defects depends crucially on the spin-spin interaction between the atoms. We find the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunbo Zhang , Harri Mäkelä , Kalle-Antti Suominen