Movie S1.

Luminescence in air on a rough LiNbO3 surface. The movie was taken with a 10× optical magnification and shows how the luminescence pattern is affected by the surface roughness. We can observe the formation of radial streamers that bridge the central toroidal plasma with a plasma ring located approximately at 500μm from the jet impinging site. The streamers are seen to interact collectively and to give a visual perception of rotation, resembling the streamers seen in plasma balls.

Toroidal plasmoid generation via extreme hydrodynamic shear

Morteza Gharib, Sean Mendoza, Moshe Rosenfeld, Masoud Beizai, and Francisco J. Alves Pereira

PNAS. 2017. 114:12657-12662 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712717114