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arXiv:cond-mat/0507454 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 19 Jul 2005 (v1), last revised 8 Jan 2006 (this version, v5)]

Title:Emergent physics on vacuum energy and cosmological constant

Authors:G.E. Volovik
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Abstract: The phenomenon of emergent physics in condensed-matter many-body systems has become the paradigm of modern physics, and can probably also be applied to high-energy physics and cosmology. This encouraging fact comes from the universal properties of the ground state (the analog of the quantum vacuum) in fermionic many-body systems, described in terms of the momentum-space topology. In one of the two generic universality classes of fermionic quantum vacua the gauge fields, chiral fermions, Lorentz invariance, gravity, relativistic spin, and other features of the Standard Model gradually emerge at low energy. The condensed-matter experience provides us with some criteria for selecting the proper theories in particle physics and gravity, and even suggests specific solutions to different fundamental problems. In particular, it provides us with a plausible mechanism for the solution of the cosmological constant problem, which I will discuss in some detail.
Comments: prepared for Proceedings of LT-24, minor corrections after referee report, oral presentation is in this http URL
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:cond-mat/0507454 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:cond-mat/0507454v5 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0507454
Journal reference: AIPConf.Proc.850:26-33,2006
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2354594

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From: Grigory Volovik [view email]
[v1] Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:22:07 UTC (135 KB)
[v2] Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:27:32 UTC (171 KB)
[v3] Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:52:06 UTC (193 KB)
[v4] Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:36:15 UTC (193 KB)
[v5] Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:42:49 UTC (192 KB)
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