Electrically pulsed vortex knots in a chiral liquid crystal undergo reversible fusion and fission, conserving the Hopf index and realizing connected sums of knots.
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Fusion and Fission of Particle-like Chiral Nematic Vortex Knots
Electrically pulsed vortex knots in a chiral liquid crystal undergo reversible fusion and fission, conserving the Hopf index and realizing connected sums of knots.