Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown in non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
2012-10-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
The advantages and disadvantages of some pedagogical non-relativistic quantum-mechanical models, used to illustrate spontaneous symmetry breakdown, are discussed. A simple quantum-mechanical toy model (a spinor on the line, subject to a magnetostatic interaction) is presented, that exhibits the spontaneous breakdown of an internal symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1205.4773,
title = {Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown in non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics},
author = {R. Munoz-Vega and A. Garcia-Quiroz and Ernesto Lopez-Chavez and Encarnacion Salinas-Hernandez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4773},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
19 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1111.1213. Equations (30) and (31) have been corrected. Other minor corrections