"This review paper describes topologically stable patterns such as vortices, disclinations, dislocations and domain walls in ordered media (superfluids, liquid and solid crystals, magnets). It also introduces the basic notions of homotopic groups theory and the necessary algebra…
by Società italiana di fisica, Salomon, Christophe, Ketterle, Wolfgang, Inguscio, Massimo, International school of physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, Italie)
fromProceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico …
The relaxation of isolated quantum many-body systems is a major unsolved problem of modern physics, which is connected to many fundamental questions. However, realizations of quantum many-body systems which are both well isolated from their environment and accessible to experime…
The phases - originally discovered in 1971 - are fascinating in that they simultaneously exhibit properties characteristic of isotropic superfluids, liquid crystals, and magnetic structures, and have made superfluid 3He a testing ground for many new ideas in physics.; The author…
A ground-breaking look at one of the most fascinating condensed matter systems so far discovered - superfluid helium 3He.