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degenerate, 397, 398, 410, 444<br />

linear defect, 397, 404, 408, 410<br />

point defect, 397<br />

wall, 397, 398, 400, 401, 403, 404, 424,<br />

426–431, 444<br />

vortex<br />

Abrikosov vortex, 187, 191, 192, 217, 218,<br />

275, 374<br />

Alice string, 194<br />

Anderson–Toulouse–Chechetkin vortex,<br />

199, 201<br />

continuous vortex, 36, 199–202, 205–208,<br />

213, 214, 216, 219, 221, 226, 228,<br />

246, 304, 308, 312, 314, 317, 331,<br />

332<br />

dipole-locked, 202, 206<br />

dipole-unlocked, 206<br />

double-skyrmion vortex, 206, 213<br />

doubly quantized, 170, 202, 204, 217, 228,<br />

245<br />

fractional, 185, 189, 191, 194, 211, 217<br />

half-quantum vortex, 82, 94, 174, 185,<br />

189, 190, 194, 195, 198, 206, 212,<br />

220, 229, 299, 409<br />

mass vortex, 165, 167, 168, 170, 178, 185,<br />

186, 189, 225, 230, 357<br />

Mermin–Ho vortex, 204, 207, 226, 228<br />

multiply quantized, 348<br />

point vortex, 221, 291<br />

in momentum space, 93<br />

ring, 60, 329–331, 336<br />

black hole analogy, 458<br />

collective coordinates, 333, 336, 338<br />

critical, 330<br />

energy, 328, 329<br />

energy spectrum, 328<br />

Landau criterion, 329<br />

macroscopic quantum tunneling, 330,<br />

331, 333, 336, 338<br />

momentum, 328, 336<br />

nucleation, 330, 338<br />

sphaleron, 330, 331, 458<br />

thermal activation, 330, 331<br />

spin vortex, 166–170, 189, 195, 197, 199,<br />

206, 224, 230, 357<br />

spin–mass vortex, 80, 166, 168, 170, 189,<br />

197, 206, 212, 226, 357<br />

vortex cluster, 165, 167, 170, 171, 179,<br />

352, 354, 355, 423, 445<br />

vortex loop, 199, 306, 330, 337, 356<br />

bosonic zero mode, 336<br />

destroying soliton, 199<br />

in momentum space, 89, 93<br />

vortex pair, 165, 170, 351<br />

vortex tangle, 243, 352, 362<br />

INDEX 507<br />

vortex-skyrmion, 159, 199–207, 213, 214,<br />

219, 221, 228, 229, 245–248, 304,<br />

308, 309, 312, 314, 317, 331, 332<br />

vortex sheet<br />

at AB-interface, 228, 340, 348<br />

in 3+1 spacetime, 89<br />

in A-phase, 194, 206–210<br />

in momentum space, 104<br />

in superconductors, 194, 211<br />

unstable, 209, 339, 340, 363<br />

vorton, 180<br />

W-parity, 292, 296, 297, 299, 300<br />

definition, 292<br />

zero-point<br />

energy, 12, 13, 24–27, 29–31, 71, 73, 371,<br />

380, 464<br />

fluctuations, 30, 392<br />

motion, 24, 27, 29, 58, 461<br />

oscillations, 20, 27, 57

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