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Two roads to antispacetime in polar distorted B phase: Kibble wall and half-quantum vortex

Other Condensed Matter 2020-03-17 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the emergent tetrad gravity and the analog of antispacetime realized in the recent experiments ( J.T. Makinen, et al., Nat. Comm. 10, 237 (2019)) on the composite defects in superfluid 3^3He: the Kibble walls bounded by strings (the half quantum vortices). The antispacetime can be reached in two different ways: by the "safe" route around the Alice string or by dangerous route across the Kibble wall. This consideration also suggests the scenario of the formation of the discrete symmetry -- the parity PP in Dirac equations -- from the continuous symmetry existing on the more fundamental level.

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@article{arxiv.1903.02418,
  title  = {Two roads to antispacetime in polar distorted B phase: Kibble wall and half-quantum vortex},
  author = {G. E. Volovik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02418},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, version submitted to JETP Letters

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