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We present a clear and mathematically simple procedure explaining spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum mechanical systems. The procedure is applicable to a wide range of models and can be easily used to explain the existence of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

We show that the spontaneous symmetry breaking can be defined also for finite systems based on the properly defined jump probability between the ground states in the 2d and 3d Ising models on a square and a cubic lattice respectively. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 Fotis K. Diakonos , Yiannis F. Contoyiannis , Stelios M. Potirakis

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in quantum systems, such as ferromagnets, is normally described as (or as arising from) degeneracy of the ground state; however, it is well established that this degeneracy only occurs in spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 David Wallace

We propose a generalization of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis accounting for the emergence of symmetry-breaking phases. It consists of two conditions that any system with a degenerate spectrum must fulfill in order to thermalize.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Sebastián Gómez , Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

We study the temporal evolution of entanglement pertaining to two qubits interacting with a thermal bath. In particular we consider the simplest nontrivial spin bath models where symmetry breaking occurs and treat them by mean field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Lucamarini , Simone Paganelli , Stefano Mancini

Tower of States analysis is a powerful tool for investigating phase transitions in condensed matter systems. Spontaneous symmetry breaking implies a specific structure of the energy eigenvalues and their corresponding quantum numbers on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-28 Alexander Wietek , Michael Schuler , Andreas M. Läuchli

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking in phase transitions occurs when the system Hamiltonian is symmetric under a certain transformation, but the equilibrium states observed in nature are not. Here, we prove that when a discrete symmetry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

Spontaneous symmetry breaking has revolutionized the understanding in numerous fields of modern physics. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in one dimensional quantum mechanical problems in terms of two-point boundary problems which lead to singular potentials containing Dirac delta functions and its derivatives. We search for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 A. Restuccia , A. Sotomayor , V. Strauss

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the symmetry that a physical system possesses, is not preserved for the ground state of the system. Although the procedure of symmetry breaking is quite clear from the mathematical point of view,…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Acus

Creation and manipulation of non-classical states of light is rapidly becoming the focus of modern attosecond science. Here, we demonstrate numerically how interaction with such states can trigger the emergence of a many-body system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Nikolai D. Klimkin , Misha Ivanov

The dynamics of two active nonlinear resonators coupled to a linear resonator is studied theoretically. Possible stationary states and its dynamical stability are considered in detail. The spontaneous symmetry breaking is found and it is…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

The description of spontaneous symmetry breaking that underlies the connection between classically ordered objects in the thermodynamic limit and their individual quantum mechanical building blocks is one of the cornerstones of modern…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in a system when its Hamiltonian possesses a certain symmetry, whereas the ground state wave functions do not preserve it. This provides such a scenario that a bifurcation, which breaks the symmetry,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jian-Hui Zhao , Hong-Lei Wang , Bo Li , Huan-Qiang Zhou

Perhaps the most important aspect of symmetry in physics is the idea that a state does not need to have the same symmetries as the theory that describes it. This phenomenon is known as spontaneous symmetry breaking. In these lecture notes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-16 Aron J. Beekman , Louk Rademaker , Jasper van Wezel

Spontaneous symmetry breaking generally circumvents one-dimensional systems with local interactions in thermal equilibrium. Here, we analyze a category of one-dimensional Hermitian models via local non-Hermitian constructions. Notably,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Jia-Bao Wang , Zi-Hao Dong , Yi Zhang

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. One of the defining features of symmetry broken phases is that the large system size limit and the vanishing external field limit do not commute. In this work, we study a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-24 Yaozong Hu , Haruki Watanabe

Recently, a couple of investigations related to symmetry breaking phenomena, 'spontaneous stochasticity' and 'ergodicity breaking' have led to significant impacts in a variety of fields related to the stochastic processes such as economics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-10 Tatsuru Kikuchi

Spontaneous symmetry breaking originats in quantum mechanical measurement of the relevant observable defining the physical situation, order parameter is the average of this observable. A modification is made on the random-phase postulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu Shi

The state function entropy and its quantum thermodynamical implication for two typical dissipative systems with anomalous spectral densities are studied by investigating on their low-temperature quantum behavior. In all cases it is found…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chun-Yang Wang , An-Qi Zhao , Xiang-Mu Kong , Jing-Dong Bao
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