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

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

"High-power optical vortices are not only fascinating from a fundamental perspective but also hold the potential to transform applications from precision manufacturing to high-resolution imaging," adds Professor Goëry Genty from Tampere University.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

These vortices can point in two opposite directions while producing neither net magnetization nor net electric polarization.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 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