The same team who tied the first "quantum knots" in a superfluid several years ago have now discovered that the knots decay, or " untie " themselves, fairly soon after forming, before turning into a vortex. The researchers also …
Finnish and American scientist made knots out of solitary waves, or knot solitons. This was the first time this was demonstrated possible, though theoretically predicted for decades. These sort of knots are thought to play an important role in the …