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In recent papers, we and colleagues have introduced a way to visualize the full vacuum Riemann curvature tensor using frame-drag vortex lines and their vorticities, and tidal tendex lines and their tendicities. We have also introduced the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 David A. Nichols , Aaron Zimmerman , Yanbei Chen , Geoffrey Lovelace , Keith D. Matthews , Robert Owen , Fan Zhang , Kip S. Thorne

Shell-shaped hollow Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) exhibit behavior distinct from their filled counterparts and have recently attracted attention due to their potential realization in microgravity settings. Here we study distinct features…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Karmela Padavić , Kuei Sun , Courtney Lannert , Smitha Vishveshwara

A system that possesses translational symmetry but breaks orientational symmetry is known as a nematic phase. While there are many examples of nematic phases in a wide range of contexts, such as in liquid crystals, complex oxides, and…

The principles of restricted superposition of circularly polarized arbitrary-amplitude waves for several hydrodynamic type models are illustrated systematically with helical representation in a unified sense. It is shown that the only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-01 Jian-Zhou Zhu

It is shown that abelian Higgs vortices on a hyperbolic surface $M$ can be constructed geometrically from holomorphic maps $f:M \to N$, where $N$ is also a hyperbolic surface. The fields depend on $f$ and on the metrics of $M$ and $N$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-02 Nicholas S. Manton , Norman A. Rink

We conjecture that space-like singularities are simply regions in which all available degrees of freedom are excited, and the system cycles randomly through generic quantum states in its Hilbert space. There is no simple geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Banks , W. Fischler

Helicity, a measure of the breakage of reflectional symmetry representing the topology of turbulent flows, contributes in a crucial way to their dynamics and to their fundamental statistical properties. We review several of their main…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Annick Pouquet , Nobumitsu Yokoi

The conjecture that helicity (or knottedness) is a fundamental conserved quantity has a rich history in fluid mechanics, but the nature of this conservation in the presence of dissipation has proven difficult to resolve. Making use of…

The generalization of photon spheres by considering the trajectories of massive particles leads to the definition of Massive Particle Surfaces (MPS). These surfaces are built with the trajectories of massive particles, and have a partial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Boris Bermúdez-Cárdenas , Oscar Lasso Andino

Properties of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black-hole and naked-singularity spacetimes with a nonzero cosmological constant are represented by their geodetical structure and embedding diagrams of the central planes of both the ordinary geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-19 Zdeněk Stuchlík , Stanislav Hledík

We consider the topological interactions of vortices on general surfaces. If the genus of the surface is greater than zero, the handles can carry magnetic flux. The classical state of the vortices and the handles can be described by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Kai-Ming Lee

Driven-dissipative condensates, such as those formed from polaritons, expose how the coherence of Bose-Einstein condensates evolves far from equilibrium. We consider the phase and frequency ordering in the steady-states of a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 John P. Moroney , Paul R. Eastham

A physical interpretation is presented of the general class of conformally flat pure radiation metrics that has recently been identified by Edgar and Ludwig. It is shown that, at least in the weak field limit, successive wave surfaces can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. B. Griffiths , J. Podolsky

This is a study of two-dimensional steady periodic travelling waves on the surface of an infinitely deep irrotational ocean, when the top streamline is in contact with a membrane which has a nonlinear response to stretching and bending, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Pietro Baldi , John F. Toland

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact manifold without boundary whose first homology is nontrivial. Hodge decomposition of the incompressible Euler's equation in terms of 1-forms yields a coupled PDE-ODE system. The $L^2$-orthogonal components are a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Clodoaldo Grotta-Ragazzo , Björn Gustafsson , Jair Koiller

The concepts of Lorentz invariance of local (flat space) physics, and unitarity of time evolution and the S-matrix, are famously rigid and robust, admitting no obvious consistent theoretical deformations, and confirmed to incredible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-06 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Paolo Benincasa

Periodic travelling waves at the free surface of an incompressible inviscid fluid in two dimensions under gravity are numerically computed for an arbitrary vorticity distribution. The fluid domain over one period is conformally mapped from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alex Doak , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

In this article, a cylindrical symmetry and static solution of the Einstein's field equations, was presented. The space-time is conformally flat, regular everywhere except on the symmetry axis where it possesses a naked curvature…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Faizuddin Ahmed , Farook Rahaman

4D cylindrical gravitational waves with aligned polarizations (Einstein-Rosen waves) are shown to be described by a weight 1/2 massive free field on the double cover of AdS_2. Thorn's C-energy is one of the sl(2,R) generators, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Niedermaier

In this paper, knotted objects (RS vortices) in the theory of topological phase singularity in electromagnetic field have been investigated in details. By using the $\phi$-mapping topological current theory proposed by Prof. Duan, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ji-Rong Ren , Tao Zhu , Shu-Fan Mo