Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter Disrupted by Topological Defects
- 2 The Phenomenological (Landau) Description of the Ordered Condensed Matter from Magnets to Bose Condensates
- 3 Simplest Topological Defects
- *4 Topological Characterization of Solitons
- Part II Structure of the Topological Matter Created by Gauge Field
- Part III Excitation Modes of Condensate: Elasticity and Stability of the Topological Matter
- Part IV Dynamics of Condensates and SolitaryWaves
- Part V Thermal Fluctuations
- Appendix
- Index
3 - Simplest Topological Defects
from Part I - Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter Disrupted by Topological Defects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter Disrupted by Topological Defects
- 2 The Phenomenological (Landau) Description of the Ordered Condensed Matter from Magnets to Bose Condensates
- 3 Simplest Topological Defects
- *4 Topological Characterization of Solitons
- Part II Structure of the Topological Matter Created by Gauge Field
- Part III Excitation Modes of Condensate: Elasticity and Stability of the Topological Matter
- Part IV Dynamics of Condensates and SolitaryWaves
- Part V Thermal Fluctuations
- Appendix
- Index
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- Ginzburg–Landau Theory of CondensatesThermodynamics, Dynamics and Formation of Topological Matter, pp. 67 - 83Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021