Overview

This book discusses the unique properties of superfluid phases 3He, the condensed matter with the outmost broken symmetry, which combine in a surprising way the properties of ordered magnets, liquid crystals and superfluids. The complicated vacuum state of these phases with a large number of fermionic and bosonic quasiparticles and topological objects remains the vacuum in modern quantum field theories. Some of the objects and physical phenomena in 3He have strong analogy with the neutrino, w-bosons, weak interactions, gravity, chiral anomaly, quantum Hall effect and fractional statistics. As an example of topological objects, the quantized vortices in 3He phases are discussed in detail, including singular and continuous vortices, half-quantum vortices, broken symmetry in the vortex core and phase transitions between the vortex states with different symmetry and topology.

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Author:   Grigori Volovik (Helsinki Univ Of Tech, Finland & Landau Inst For Theoretical Phys, Russia)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9789810207052

ISBN 10:   9810207050
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 March 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Exotic Properties of Superfluid 3He will be of considerable interest to superfluid 3He researchers and to field theorists anxious to find out, in language that is comprehensible to them, what is happening in 3He physics. John Hook Physics World, 1992

"""Exotic Properties of Superfluid 3He will be of considerable interest to superfluid 3He researchers and to field theorists anxious to find out, in language that is comprehensible to them, what is happening in 3He physics."" John Hook Physics World, 1992"

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