Two Roads to Antispacetime in Distorted B Phase: Kibble Wall and Half-quantum Vortex

G. E. Volovik*

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Abstract

We consider the emergent tetrad gravity and the analog of antispacetime realized in the recent experiments on the composite defects in superfluid 3 He (J.T. Mäkinen, et al., Nat. Comm. 10, 237 (2019)): the Kibble walls bounded by strings (the half quantum vortices). The antispacetime can be reached in two different ways: by the “safe” route around the Alice string or by dangerous route across the Kibble wall. This consideration also suggests the scenario of the formation of the discrete symmetry – the parity P in Dirac equations–from the continuous symmetry existing on the more fundamental level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)499-501
Number of pages3
JournalJETP Letters
Volume109
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2019
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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