Collision of two hopfions

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA54DDMaRDI QIDQ2969889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

angular momentumcollisionhopfionsexchange of helicities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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