Topological defects as relics of emergent continuous symmetry and Higgs condensation of disorder in ferroelectrics

Shi-Zeng Lin, Xueyun Wang, Yoshitomo Kamiya +9

Lars Onsager and Richard Feynman envisioned that the three-dimensional (3D) superfluid-to-normal $\lambda$ transition in ${}^4$He occurs through the proliferation of vortices. This proce…