Vorton
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A vorton is a circular cosmic string
loop stabilized by the angular momentum of the charge and current trapped on the string.
For a recent review article of cosmic strings see .
Cosmic string
Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1-dimensional topological defects which may have formed during a symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe when the topology of the vacuum manifold associated to this symmetry breaking is not simply connected. It is expected that at least one string...
loop stabilized by the angular momentum of the charge and current trapped on the string.
For a recent review article of cosmic strings see .