vortices

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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

"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

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

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

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