Optical vortex beams contain non-diffracting meronic spin defects consisting of an undefined-spin point defect enclosed by a half-sphere meron texture in transverse spin.
Freund, Saddles, singularities, and extrema in random phase fields
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Skyrmion number in superposed vortex beams equals max(ℓ2, ℓ1) under small perturbations rather than ℓ2 - ℓ1.
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Non-diffracting meronic spin defects of light
Optical vortex beams contain non-diffracting meronic spin defects consisting of an undefined-spin point defect enclosed by a half-sphere meron texture in transverse spin.
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Unfolding unstable skyrmionic polarization textures
Skyrmion number in superposed vortex beams equals max(ℓ2, ℓ1) under small perturbations rather than ℓ2 - ℓ1.