Two roads to antispacetime in distorted B-phase of 3He
G. E. Volovik
Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
Abstract
We consider the emergent tetrad gravity and the analog of
antispacetime realized
in the recent experiments on the composite defects in superfluid 3He
(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.