Table of Contents

1: Introduction: GUT and anti-GUT
Quantum Bose Liquid2: Gravity
3: Microscopic physics of quantum liquids
4: Effective theory of superfluidity
5: Two-fluid hydrodynamics
6: Advantages and drawbacks of effective theory
Quantum Fermionic Liquids7: 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
Topological Defects13: Topology of defects
14: Vortices in 3He-B
15: Symmetry breaking in 3He-A and singular vortices
16: Continuous structures
17: Monopoles and boojums
Anomalies of Chiral Vacuum18: Anomalous non-conservation of fermionic charge
19: Anomalous currents
20: Macroscopic parity violating effects
21: Quantization of physical parameters
Fermions on Topological Objects and Brane World22: Edge states and fermion zero modes on soliton
23: Fermion zero modes on vortices
24: Vortex mass
25: Spectral flow in the vortex core
Nucleation of Quasiparticles and Topological Defects26: Landau critical velocity
27: Vortex formation by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
28: Vortex formation in ionizing radiation
Vacuum Energy and Vacuum in Nontrivial Gravitational Background29: 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

About the Author

Nationality: Russia, Moscow, 07 September 1946

Reviews

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