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SUBMITTER: Tasinkevych M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4246280 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141104 46
Topologically nontrivial field excitations, including solitonic, linked, and knotted structures, play important roles in physical systems ranging from classical fluids and liquid crystals, to electromagnetism, classic, and quantum field theories. These excitations can appear spontaneously during symmetry-breaking phase transitions. For example, in cosmological theories, cosmic strings may have formed knotted configurations influencing the Early Universe development, whereas in liquid crystals tr ...[more]