Figure 6
From: Physical Links: defining and detecting inter-chain entanglement
Topological complexity in melts: (a) Topological spectrum associated to the physical links found in the melt at different solution density ρσ 3. As ρ increases, the category “other”, where all the more complex links are collected, gets more and more populated. Two configurations of this category, found at ρσ 3 = 0.1, are represented in panels (b,c). Panel (b) refers to a physical Whitehead link that additionally host a physical knoy (trefoil). Panel (c) represents a 5 component physical link where the chains are catenated in pairs with either Hopf or Solomon links.
