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
In this case, the researchers found that magnetic vortices can naturally produce Floquet states when magnons are sufficiently energized.
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
These vortices effectively block any plankton particles -- even those that are smaller than the space between plates.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
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
