Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in Cosmology and the Laboratory
arXiv:cond-mat/0412404
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.
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