Collision of two hopfions

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA54DDzbMATH Open1361.78002arXiv1610.06014OpenAlexW3101184383MaRDI QIDQ2969889FDOQ2969889

Authors: Manuel Arrayás, Jóse L. Trueba 

Publication date: 23 March 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the collision of two hopfions or Hopf-Ra~nada electromagnetic fields. The superposition of two of such fields, travelling in opposite directions, yields different topology for the electric and magnetic field lines. Controlling the angular momentum of such fields, we can control the topology of the flow associated to the field lines, and the energy distribution. The concept of electromagnetic helicity and the exchange between its magnetic and electric components are used to explain the different behaviours observed when the angular momentum is reversed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06014

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zbMATH Keywords

angular momentumcollisionhopfionsexchange of helicities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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• Spin-orbital momentum decomposition and helicity exchange in a set of non-null knotted electromagnetic fields
• The method of Fourier transforms applied to electromagnetic knots
• On the existence of the field line solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations
• Head-on collision of ultrarelativistic charges
• Classification of electromagnetic and gravitational hopfions by algebraic type
• Knots in electromagnetism

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