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The Universe in a Helium Droplet: (117 International Series of Monographs on Physics)

The Universe in a Helium Droplet: (117 International Series of Monographs on Physics)


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There are fundamental relations between three vast areas of physics: particle physics, cosmology and condensed matter physics. The fundamental links between the first two areas, in other words, between micro- and macro-worlds, have been well established. There is a unified system of laws governing the scales from subatomic particles to the Cosmos and this principle is widely exploited in the description of the physics of the early Universe. The main goal of this book is to establish and define the connection of these two fields with condensed matter physics. According to the modern view, elementary particles (electrons, neutrinos, quarks, etc.) are excitations of a more fundamental medium called the quantum vacuum. This is the new 'aether' of the 21st Century. Electromagnetism, gravity, and the fields transferring weak and strong interactions all represent different types of the collective motion of the quantum vacuum. Among the existing condensed matter systems, a quantum liquid called superfluid 3He-A most closely represents the quantum vacuum. Its quasiparticles are very similar to the elementary particles, while the collective modes of the liquid are very similar to electromagnetic and gravitational fields, and the quanta of these collective modes are analogues of photons and gravitons. The fundamental laws of physics, such as the laws of relativity (Lorentz invariance) and gauge invariance, arise when the temperature of the quantum liquid decreases. This book is written for graduate students and researchers in all areas of physics.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction: GUT and anti-GUT Quantum Bose Liquid2: Gravity 3: Microscopic physics of quantum liquids 4: Effective theory of superfluidity 5: Two-fluid hydrodynamics 6: Advantages and drawbacks of effective theory Quantum Fermionic Liquids7: Microscopic physics 8: Universality classes of fermionic vacua 9: Effective quantum electrodynamics in 3He-A 10: Phenomenology of superfluid helium-3 11: Momentum-space topology of 2+1 systems 12: p-space topology protected by symmetry Topological Defects13: Topology of defects 14: Vortices in 3He-B 15: Symmetry breaking in 3He-A and singular vortices 16: Continuous structures 17: Monopoles and boojums Anomalies of Chiral Vacuum18: Anomalous non-conservation of fermionic charge 19: Anomalous currents 20: Macroscopic parity violating effects 21: Quantization of physical parameters Fermions on Topological Objects and Brane World22: Edge states and fermion zero modes on soliton 23: Fermion zero modes on vortices 24: Vortex mass 25: Spectral flow in the vortex core Nucleation of Quasiparticles and Topological Defects26: Landau critical velocity 27: Vortex formation by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability 28: Vortex formation in ionizing radiation Vacuum Energy and Vacuum in Nontrivial Gravitational Background29: Casimir effect and vacuum energy 30: Topological defects as source of nontrivial metric 31: Vacuum under rotation and spinning strings 32: Analogs of event horizon 33: Conclusion References

About the Author :
Nationality: Russia, Moscow, 07 September 1946

Review :
`Physicists will find a wealth of powerful and entertaining ideas in this highly original work.' F. Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA `provides a splendid guide into this mostly unexplored wilderness of emergent particle physics and cosmology.' James D. Bjorken, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA


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  • ISBN-13: 9780198507826
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 117 International Series of Monographs on Physics
  • Weight: 958 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198507828
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 2003
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 530
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Width: 162 mm


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