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SUBMITTER: Zhao H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10387112 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Hanqing H Malomed Boris A BA Smalyukh Ivan I II
Nature communications 20230729 1
Being ubiquitous, solitons have particle-like properties, exhibiting behaviour often associated with atoms. Bound solitons emulate dynamics of molecules, though solitonic analogues of polymeric materials have not been considered yet. Here we experimentally create and model soliton polymers, which we call "polyskyrmionomers", built of atom-like individual solitons characterized by the topological invariant representing the skyrmion number. With the help of nonlinear optical imaging and numerical ...[more]