Quantum vorticity in nature
arXiv:1508.05619 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X15300562
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.
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
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