vortices

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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

Optical vortices, which are light beams that carry orbital angular momentum, offer remarkable opportunities for ultra-precise material processing, accelerating particles, expanding data transmission capacity and enabling next-generation photonics.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

Instead of relying on magnetic or electric polarization states, these materials contain vortices of electric dipoles.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

The ray is able to swim at just the right speed that water, streaming into its mouth, can form vortices between the grooved plates.

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