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Cosmology, particle physics, and superfluid 3He

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Many direct parallels connect superfluid3He with the field theories describing the physical vacuum, gauge fields and elementary fermions. Superfluid3He exhibits a variety of topological defects which can be detected with single-defect sensitivity. Modern scenarios of defect-mediated baryogenesis can be simulated by the interaction of the3He vortices and domain walls with fermionic quasiparticles. Formation of defects in a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early Universe, which could be responsible for large-scale structure formation and for microwave-background anisotropy, also may be modelled in the laboratory. This is supported by the recent observation of vortex formation in neutron-irradiated3He-B where the “primordial fireball” is formed in an exothermic nuclear reaction.

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Volovik, G.E. Cosmology, particle physics, and superfluid 3He. Czech J Phys 46 (Suppl 6), 3048–3055 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02548109

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