Topological fields
Our work focuses on two main projects:
1. Topological Structures in electromagnetic and gravitational radiations: Using theoretical and computational techniques we construct and describe the phenomenology of electromagnetic and gravitoelectromagnetic fields with topologically nontrivial field line structures. We have also constructed and studied optical vortices and their gravitational analogs.
2. Topological Structures in magnetohydrodynamics: In partnership with our plasma laboratory facilities at the University of Leiden we construct and study the phenomenology of topological solitons in ideal and resistive MHD. We also work in simulating the effect of topological field configurations on the stability of resistive plasmas.
Recent publications
Resistive evolution of toroidal field distributions and their relation to magnetic clouds
CB Smiet, HJ de Blank, TA de Jong, DNL Kok, D Bouwmeester
Journal of Plasma Physics 85 (1)
Ideal relaxation of the Hopf fibration
CB Smiet, S Candelaresi, D Bouwmeester
Physics of Plasmas 24 (7), 072110
Knotted optical vortices in exact solutions to Maxwell’s equations
AJJM de Klerk, RI van der Veen, JW Dalhuisen, D Bouwmeester
Physical Review A 95 (5), 053820
Magnetic surface topology in decaying plasma knots
CB Smiet, A Thompson, P Bouwmeester, D Bouwmeester
New journal of physics 19 (2), 023046
Knots in electromagnetism
M Arrayás, D Bouwmeester, JL Trueba
Physics Reports 667, 1-61
Cable Knot Vortices in Electromagnetism
AJJM de Klerk, RI van der Veen, JW Dalhuisen, D Bouwmeester
arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05285
Self-Organizing Knotted Magnetic Structures in Plasma
CB Smiet, S Candelaresi, A Thompson, J Swearngin, JW Dalhuisen,
Physical Review Letters 115 (9), 095001
Classification of electromagnetic and gravitational hopfions by algebraic type
A Thompson, A Wickes, J Swearngin, D Bouwmeester
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 48 (20), 205202
Linked and knotted gravitational radiation
A Thompson, J Swearngin, D Bouwmeester
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 47 (35), 355205
Constructing a class of topological solitons in magnetohydrodynamics
A Thompson, J Swearngin, A Wickes, D Bouwmeester
Physical Review E 89 (4), 043104
Gravitational hopfions
J Swearngin, A Thompson, A Wickes, JW Dalhuisen, D Bouwmeester
arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1431