- plural of vortex.
vortices
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All measurements of the magnetic vortices and analysis of data from multiple instruments were carried out using the Labmule program developed at HZDR, which is available as a lab automation tool.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
Magnetic vortices form in ultrathin disks made of materials like nickel-iron, often just micrometers or even nanometers in size.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 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
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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