vortices
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"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
These vortices form in pairs that rotate in opposite directions, with one spinning clockwise and the other counterclockwise.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
The breaking of the B-L symmetry produced strings that behave like magnetic flux tubes, while the PQ symmetry created superfluid vortices that carry no magnetic flux.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025
Instead of relying on magnetic or electric polarization states, these materials contain vortices of electric dipoles.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025
Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
