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The statistical mechanics of vortices in superfluids and superconductors, and the associated phase transitions, are described by functional integrals over nonholonomic fields.
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Kleinert, H. (2003). Nonholonomic Field Theory of Vortices and Defect and their Physe Transitions. In: Arodz, H., Dziarmaga, J., Zurek, W.H. (eds) Patterns of Symmetry Breaking. NATO Science Series, vol 127. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1029-0_8
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