Vortex knots in tangled quantum eigenfunctions
Strings or long chains are prone to knotting. Here, the authors demonstrate that the vortex structure of quantum wavefunctions, such as that in a simple harmonic oscillator, can also contain knots, whose topological complexity can be a descriptor of the spatial order of the system.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12346 |