vortices
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Powerful currents twist and churn, creating swirling eddies that split into smaller and smaller vortices until their energy eventually fades away.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
In this phase, the magnetic directions of individual atoms, called magnetic moments, organize into swirling structures known as vortices.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
"Because of their stability and extremely small size, these vortices offer a new route to controlling magnetism at the nanoscale and provide insight into universal topological physics in two-dimensional systems."
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
"You want to design a filter such that you're in the regime where you generate vortices," Hosoi says.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
All of this can be explained very well in the atomic model of the world, but only with much greater difficulty using Cartesian vortices.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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