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The article reports the excitation of a helical argon atmospheric pressure plasma jet using a pulse modulated 13.56 MHz radiofrequency (RF) power source. This helical structure is observed in open ambient air which is far different from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Mahreen Khan , Veda Prakash G. , Satyananda Kar , Debaprasad Sahu , Ashish Ganguli

We analyze the way topological constraints and inhomogeneity in the excitability influence the dynamics of spiral waves on spheres and punctured spheres of excitable media. We generalize the definition of an index such that it characterizes…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jörn Davidsen , Leon Glass , Raymond Kapral

Recently, it has been proposed that the turbulent fluctuations measured in a linear plasma device could be described as a superposition of uncorrelated Lorentzian pulses with a narrow distribution of durations, which would provide an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 B. Ph. van Milligen , R. Sánchez , C. Hidalgo

The competition between the ferromagnetic exchange interaction and anti-symmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can stabilize a helical phase or support the formation of skyrmions. In thin films of chiral magnets, the current density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Jan Masell , Xiuzhen Yu , Naoya Kanazawa , Yoshinori Tokura , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the propagation properties and light-matter interactions of the focused doughnut pulses, broadband, single-cycle electromagnetic perturbations of toroidal topology first described by Hellwarth and Nouchi in 1996. We show how…

We extend the definition of hopfions to include a class of spin-$h$ fields and use this to introduce the electromagnetic and gravitational hopfions of different algebraic types. The fields are constructed through the Penrose contour…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Amy Thompson , Alexander Wickes , Joe Swearngin , Dirk Bouwmeester

Composite and janus type metallo-dielectric nanoparticles are increasingly considered as a means to control the spatial and temporal behavior of electromagnetic fields in diverse applications such as coupling to quantum emitters, achieve…

The tidally tilted pulsators are a new type of oscillating star in close binary systems that have their pulsation axis in the orbital plane because of the tidal distortion caused by their companion. We describe this group of stars on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-19 Gerald Handler , Rahul Jayaraman , Donald W. Kurtz , Jim Fuller , Saul A. Rappaport

Helical solenoids have been proposed as an option for a Helical Cooling Channel for muons in a proposed Muon Collider. Helical solenoids can provide the required three main field components: solenoidal, helical dipole, and a helical…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 M. L. Lopes , S. T. Krave , J. C. Tompkins , K. Yonehara , G. Flanagan , S. A. Kahn , K. Melconian

Topological properties of solid states have sparked considerable recent interest due to their importance in the physics of lattices with a non-trivial basis and their potential in the design of novel materials. Here we describe an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Henning U. Voss , Douglas J. Ballon

We investigate the evolution of coronal loop emission in the context of the coronal magnetic field topology. New modeling techniques allow us to investigate the magnetic field structure and energy release in active regions. Using these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. -Y. Lee , Graham Barnes , K. D. Leka , Katharine K. Reeves , K. E. Korreck , L. Golub , E. E. DeLuca

We introduce higher order polariton topological insulator (HOTI) realized with fractal array of microcavity pillars arranged into Sierpinski gasket-like geometry. This system exhibiting self similarity in different generations, can support…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Khalil Sabour , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Helicity is a fundamental property of magnetic fields, conserved in ideal MHD. In flux rope topology, it consists of twist and writhe helicity. Despite the common occurrence of helical structures in the solar atmosphere, little is known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Tibor Toeroek , Mitchell A. Berger , Bernhard Kliem

The integration of a theory regarding the dynamics of averaged magnetic moment in a turbulent setting with the concept of a self-optimized cascade loop of helical fluxes, either spontaneously or intentionally generated near the separatrix,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 A. Bershadskii

Helical edge modes are characteristic of topological insulators in two dimensions. This paper demonstrates that helical edge modes remain across transitions to ordinary insulators or to semimetals under certain condition. Straight and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Shijun Mao , Yoshio Kuramoto

Application of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) in photonic, optoelectronic or valleytronic devices requires the growth of continuous monolayers, heterostructures and alloys of different materials in a single process. We present a…

Zero-helicity vortices, such as Hill's vortex and field-reversed configurations (FRCs), have long been assumed to be toroidal in topology. This paper proves this assumption false: under arbitrarily small odd-parity (with respect to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Taosif Ahsan , Samuel A. Cohen , Alan H. Glasser

Thouless pumping is a mechanism to perform topologically protected transport of particles by adiabatically modulating the Hamiltonian. The transported current is a topological invariant that is intimately related to the integer quantum Hall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 V. M. Bastidas

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

On the basis of solutions of the Bragg-Hawthorne equations we discuss the helicity of thin toroidal vortices with the swirl - the orbital motion along the torus diretrix. It is shown that relationship of the helicity with circulations along…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-22 Elena Yu. Bannikova , Victor M. Kontorovich , Sergey A. Poslavsky