Falaco Solitons, Cosmic Strings in a Swimming Pool

2001/01/25 by R. M. Kiehn, Kiehn, R. M. · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0101098

6 pages pdf 3 figures included

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Abstract

Topological defects experimentally induced by rotational dynamics in a continuous media replicate the coherent structure features of cosmic strings as well as hadrons.

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