Ferroelectric polarization vortices close to a ferroelectric transition turn out to be striking models of the cosmos in which strings are thought to have condensed out of the rapid expansion of the early Universe.
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Rowley, S., Lonzarich, G. Ferroelectrics in a twist. Nature Phys 10, 907–908 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3179
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