Schematic of the Hopf fibration and scalar hopfion. (IMAGE)

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Schematic of the Hopf fibration and scalar hopfion.

Caption

The equiphase lines in a scalar hopfion present the Hopf fibration's topological features.

Credit

by Chenhao Wan, Yijie Shen, Andy Chong, Qiwen Zhan

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