Generation of defects in superfluid 4 He as an analogue of the formation of cosmic strings
Hendry, P. C. ; Lawson, N. S. ; Lee, R. A. M. ; McClintock, P. V. E. ; Williams, C. D. H.
[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1994
[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1994
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1476-4687
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Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] The analogy2 4 between liquid helium and the early Universe arises because they both undergo phase transitions that can be considered as being of second order, describable in terms of Ginzburg-Landau theory6. In each case, the potential contribu-tion to the free energy density can be written as ...
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