Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots
Materials and sample preparation The chiral LC mixture used was prepared from 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB, EM Chemicals), doped with…
Monopole-mediated light control of half skyrmion topology in nematic liquid crystals
Creation of topological monopole-antimonopole pairs in half skyrmions Topological defects, which are a necessary result of broken continuous…
Artificial gauge fields in photonics
Yang, C. N. in Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang II, 78–92 (World Scientific, 2013). Aidelsburger, M., Nascimbene,…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
Chaikin, P. M. & Lubensky, T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Yeh, P.…
Predicting topological entanglement entropy in a Rydberg analogue simulator
Hilbert space Considering a system of N spins 1/2 whose Hilbert space is spanned by {|↑〉, |↓〉}⊗N, we map…