Quantum vorticity in nature
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-09-01 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Quantum vorticity occurs in superfluidity, which arises from a spatial variation of the quantum phase. As such, it can occur in diverse systems over a wide range of scales, from the electroweak sector and QCD of the standard model of particle theory, through the everyday world, to the cosmos. I review the observable manifestations, and their unified description in terms of an order parameter that is a complex scalar field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.05619,
title = {Quantum vorticity in nature},
author = {Kerson Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05619},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
18 pages, 17 figures. Invited contribution to the Proceedings of a Conference on Sixty Years of Yang-Mills Gauge field, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 26-28, 2015