Figure 8

The autocorrelation A(t), as defined by Eq. (14), for ρ = ρ 2 = 180.78 (PPC, compare Fig. 4(b)). (a) The oscillations resulting from looping around the braids are spaced by τ ≃ 2.2. (b) On longer timescales the auto-correlation decreases linearly, with the dashed line corresponding to 0.9965 − 7 · 10−6 t.