Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in Cosmology and the Laboratory
Other Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In these lectures we look for parallels between symmetry breaking in the early universe and condensed matter systems, and discuss experiments that display these.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0412404,
title = {Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in Cosmology and the Laboratory},
author = {R. J. Rivers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0412404},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages, published in the Proceedings of the National Workshop on Cosmological Phase Transitions and Topological Defects (Porto, Portugal, 2003), ed. T.A. Girard (Grafitese, Edificio Ciencia, 2004), pp11-23