Superfluid 3He, Particle Physics and Cosmology
G.E. Volovik

TL;DR
This paper explores how superfluid 3He and unconventional superconductors serve as analogs for high-energy physics and cosmological phenomena, enabling experimental simulations of complex quantum field effects.
Contribution
It establishes a theoretical and experimental connection between superfluid 3He phenomena and fundamental particle physics and cosmology, highlighting new simulation possibilities.
Findings
Experimental simulation of baryogenesis by textures and cosmic strings
Observation of primordial magnetic field generation via axial anomaly
Connection between superfluid quasiparticles and relativistic quantum fields
Abstract
Superfluid 3He-A and high-temperature superconductors both have gapless fermionic quasiparticles with the "relativistic" spectrum close to the gap nodes. The interaction of these "relaitivistic" fermions with bosonic collective modes of the order parameter is described by the quantum field theory, which results in a close connection with particle physics. Many phenomena in high-energy physics and cosmology can thus be simulated in superfluid phases of 3He and in unconventional superconductors. This includes axial anomaly, vacuum polarization, zero-charge effect, fermionic charge of the vacuum, baryogenesis, event horizon, vacuum instability, Hawking radiation, etc. Analogs of some of these phenomena, which are related to the axial anomaly, have been experimentally simulated in superfluid 3He. This includes the baryogenesis by textures (Manchester), the baryogenesis by cosmic strings…
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Taxonomy
TopicsQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamics · Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research · Superconducting Materials and Applications
