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advanced_notions:quantum_field_theory:solitons [2018/04/02 15:10]
jakobadmin [Why is it interesting?]
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 In addition, there is an [[http://​www.pbs.org/​wgbh/​nova/​blogs/​physics/​2011/​12/​beautiful-losers-kelvins-vortex-atoms/​|old dream]] that all elementary particles could be explained as topological solitons. (There are lots of problems with this idea, but at least, [[https://​plus.google.com/​+UrsSchreiber/​posts/​Z2LfHsyxgR8|instantons come somewhat close]].) In addition, there is an [[http://​www.pbs.org/​wgbh/​nova/​blogs/​physics/​2011/​12/​beautiful-losers-kelvins-vortex-atoms/​|old dream]] that all elementary particles could be explained as topological solitons. (There are lots of problems with this idea, but at least, [[https://​plus.google.com/​+UrsSchreiber/​posts/​Z2LfHsyxgR8|instantons come somewhat close]].)
  
-While solitons are interesting but rare in particle physics, they are found frequently in condensed matter physics.+While solitons are rare in particle physics, they are found frequently in condensed matter physics.
  
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