Introduction. Cosmology meets condensed matter

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1877, 2008, Pages 2793-2802

  Kibble, T W B ^a   Pickett, G R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black holes; Branes; Cosmic strings; Phase transitions; Superfluids; Topological defects

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOLIDS;

CONDENSED MATTERS; CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS; EARLY UNIVERSE; EUROPEAN; FIELD THEORY; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PARTICLE PHYSICS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); SYNERGY (CO); TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 47249129343     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0098     Document Type: Review

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