Testing cosmological defect formation in the laboratory

Details Testing cosmological defect formation in the laboratory Testing cosmological defect formation in the laboratory

2001-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111082v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages. Text of an invited lecture, to be published in Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Vortex Matter in Sup

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0921-4534(01)01225-4

Topological defects such as cosmic strings may have been formed at early-universe phase transitions. Direct tests of this idea are impossible, but the mechanism can be elucidated by studying analogous processes in low-temperature condensed-matter systems. Experiments on vortex formation in superfluid helium and in superconductors have so far yielded somewhat confusing results. I shall discuss their possible interpretation.

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