Topologically protected vortex knots and links

Authors Toni Annala, Roberto Zamora-Zamora, Mikko Möttönen

Publication date 7 April 2022

Abstract: We propose a class of tangled vortex structures, tied from non-Abelian topological vortices, which are immune against decaying through local reconnections and strand crossings that are allowed by the system. We refer to such structures as being topologically protected. We then turn our attention to topological vortices classified by the quaternion group

Q_{8}

(

Q_{8}

-colored links), which are realizable in systems consisting either of the biaxial nematic or the cyclic phase of a spin-2 Bose--Einstein condensate, or of biaxial nematic liquid crystal, and prove the existence of topologically protected

Q_{8}

-colored links. Remarkably, the strongest invariant we construct, the

Q

-invariant of

Q_{8}

-colored links, can be used to classify

Q_{8}

-colored links up to allowed local surgeries on the vortex cores.

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