Knotting fractional-order knots with the polarization state of light

E Pisanty, GJ Machado, V Vicuña-Hernández… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The fundamental polarization singularities of monochromatic light are normally associated
with invariance under coordinated rotations: symmetry operations that rotate the spatial …

Tying polarization‐switchable optical vortex knots and links via holographic all‐dielectric metasurfaces

X Guo, P Li, J Zhong, S Liu, B Wei… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tailoring the spatial structure of light field in multiple degrees of freedom is a research
hotspot in recent years. The topology of light field, as one of the most fascinating structures …

Creating complex optical longitudinal polarization structures

F Maucher, S Skupin, SA Gardiner, IG Hughes - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
In this Letter, we show that it is possible to structure the longitudinal polarization component
of light. We illustrate our approach by demonstrating linked and knotted longitudinal vortex …

Quantum hydrodynamics of the spinor Bose–Einstein condensate at non-zero temperatures

PA Andreev, IN Mosaki, MI Trukhanova - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A finite temperature hydrodynamic model is derived for the spin-1 ultracold bosons by the
many-particle quantum hydrodynamic method. It is presented as the two fluid model of the …

Topological transition from superfluid vortex rings to isolated knots and links

WK Bai, T Yang, WM Liu - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Knots and links are fundamental topological objects that play a key role in both classical and
quantum fluids. In this paper, we propose a scheme to generate torus vortex knots and links …

Direct numerical and large-eddy simulation of trefoil knotted vortices

X Zhao, Z Yu, JB Chapelier, C Scalo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates pre-and post-reconnection dynamics of an unperturbed trefoil
knotted vortex for circulation-based Reynolds numbers are less sensitive to the reconnection …

An intuitive approach to structuring the three electric field components of light

F Maucher, S Skupin, SA Gardiner… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents intuitive interpretations of tightly focused beams of light by drawing
analogies with two-dimensional electrostatics, magnetostatics and fluid dynamics. We use a …

Formation of vortex rings and hopfions in trapped Bose–Einstein condensates

S Zou, WK Bai, T Yang, WM Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The topological transition of vortex lines to vortex rings and hopfions is numerically
investigated by the Gross–Pitaevskii equation in three-dimensional trapped Bose–Einstein …

Helicity conservation and twisted Seifert surfaces for superfluid vortices

H Salman - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Starting from the continuum definition of helicity, we derive from first principles its different
contributions for superfluid vortices. Our analysis shows that an internal twist contribution …

Quasistable quantum vortex knots and links in anisotropic harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

C Ticknor, VP Ruban, PG Kevrekidis - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
The long-time existence of topologically nontrivial configurations of quantum vortices in the
form of torus knots and links in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates is demonstrated …