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Knots from wall-antiwall annihilations with stretched strings
Phys. Rev. D 85, 121701(R) – Published 14 June, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.121701
Abstract
A pair of a domain wall and an antidomain wall is unstable to decay. We show that when a vortex string is stretched between the walls, there remains a knot soliton (Hopfion) after the pair annihilation.
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