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Tying Knots in Wavefunctions

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Callum Jones .

Tying a knot in a piece of string can be a hard practical problem. It seems even harder to tie a field into a knot — say a function from real 3-dimensional space to the complex numbers such that the function is zero on a curve which is a given knot or link. I will talk about some examples of knotted wavefunctions, where the function satisfies Schrödinger’s equation: how to design wavefunctions with specific knotted zero lines, realisable in laser beams, and how tangled knots appear in chaotic random 3D eigenfunctions.

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