Readership: Graduate students and researchers in both particle physics and condensed matter physics.
Grigory E. Volovik, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia
"The book extends the traditionally fruitful transfer of ideas from condensed matter to fundamental theories. Do not be put off by the title: this is a serious contribution. " - Mathematical Reviews
"Physicists will find a wealth of powerful and entertaining ideas in this highly original work." - F. Wilczek, MIT
"Provides a splendid guide into this mostly unexplored wilderness of emergent particle physics and cosmology." - James D. Bjorken, SLAC
1: Introduction: GUT and anti-GUT 2: Gravity 3: Microscopic physics of quantum liquids 4: Effective theory of superfluidity 5: Two-fluid hydrodynamics 6: Advantages and drawbacks of effective theory 7: Microscopic physics 8: Universality classes of fermionic vacua 9: Effective quantum electrodynamics in 3He-A 10: Phenomenology of superfluid helium-3 11: Momentum-space topology of 2+1 systems 12: p-space topology protected by symmetry 13: Topology of defects 14: Vortices in 3He-B 15: Symmetry breaking in 3He-A and singular vortices 16: Continuous structures 17: Monopoles and boojums 18: Anomalous non-conservation of fermionic charge 19: Anomalous currents 20: Macroscopic parity violating effects 21: Quantization of physical parameters 22: Edge states and fermion zero modes on soliton 23: Fermion zero modes on vortices 24: Vortex mass 25: Spectral flow in the vortex core 26: Landau critical velocity 27: Vortex formation by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability 28: Vortex formation in ionizing radiation 29: Casimir effect and vacuum energy 30: Topological defects as source of nontrivial metric 31: Vacuum under rotation and spinning strings 32: Analogs of event horizon 33: Conclusion References
