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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 123, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.163003
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- Academy of Finland through its Centre of Excellence Program [312300]
- European Research Council [681311]
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- NSF [PHY-1519174, PHY-1806318]
- CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd. [ay2090]
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We experimentally study the dynamics of quantum knots in a uniform magnetic field in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates. The knot is created in the polar magnetic phase, which rapidly undergoes a transition toward the ferromagnetic phase in the presence of the knot. The magnetic order becomes scrambled as the system evolves, and the knot disappears. Strikingly, over long evolution times, the knot decays into a polarcore spin vortex, which is a member of a class of singular SO(3) vortices. The polar-core spin vortex is stable with an observed lifetime comparable to that of the condensate itself. The structure is similar to that predicted to appear in the evolution of an isolated monopole defect, suggesting a possible universality in the observed topological transition.
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