Generalized Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Materials Science
2020-11-24 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We propose a new type of symmetry breaking mechanism that takes boundaries into account, and show how it can detect surface modes by interpreting them as the order parameter associated with a generalized symmetry breaking. We argue that this mechanism is analogous to, and yet distinct from, the standard Ginzburg-Landau scenarios, and show how the two communicate through the specification of boundary conditions.
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@article{arxiv.2008.08066,
title = {Generalized Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking},
author = {Sinéad M. Griffin and Michele Schiavina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08066},
year = {2020}
}
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5 pages