Abstract:
We consider a new approach to thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. The phase transition of He3 and He4 to the superfluid state at low temperatures is interpreted as the transition to a semiclassical nonholonomic liquid crystal.
Citation:
V. P. Maslov, “A new approach to phase transitions, thermodynamics, and hydrodynamics”, TMF, 165:3 (2010), 543–567; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 165:3 (2010), 1699–1720