Gravitational Waves and the Early Universe: Accelerated Expansion, Dynamical Inhomogeneity, and Beyond

Qaisar Shafi, "Superconducting strings and composite topological structures"

14 Mar 2026, 14:30

20m

ES635 (Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University)

Description

We review the appearance of superconducting strings and composite topological structures in realistic extensions of the Standard Model. Some of these structures also appear in condensed matter systems.