Topological origin of equatorial waves

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAN8819zbMATH Open1404.86016arXiv1702.07583OpenAlexW2604942489WikidataQ48235948 ScholiaQ48235948MaRDI QIDQ4646002FDOQ4646002

A. Venaille, P. Delplace, J. B. Marston

Publication date: 11 January 2019

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Topology sheds new light on the emergence of unidirectional edge waves in a variety of physical systems, from condensed matter to artificial lattices. Waves observed in geophysical flows are also robust to perturbations, which suggests a role for topology. We show a topological origin for two celebrated equatorially trapped waves known as Kelvin and Yanai modes, due to the Earth's rotation that breaks time-reversal symmetry. The non-trivial structure of the bulk Poincar'e wave modes encoded through the first Chern number of value $2$ guarantees existence for these waves. This invariant demonstrates that ocean and atmospheric waves share fundamental properties with topological insulators, and that topology plays an unexpected role in the Earth climate system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07583

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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