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Kinematical and dynamical mechanisms leading to the spontaneous breaking of space-time symmetries are described. The symmetries affected are space and time translations, space rotations, scale and conformal transformations. Applications are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Eliezer Rabinovici

A nonperturbative approach for spontaneous symmetry breaking is proposed. It is based on some properties of interacting field operators. As the consequences an additional terms like to m^2 A^2 appears in the initial Lagrangian.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

A theoretical consideration of the so-called "membrane-in-the-middle" optomechanical cavity revealed that it undergoes a spontaneous symmetry breaking as a function of the transparency of the membrane. Such typical features of this…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. K. Tagantsev

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a phenomenon of an alteration of a state symmetry without a change in the system symmetry. A transition from a state with unbroken symmetry to a state with broken symmetry leads to a qualitative change in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 A. R. Mukhamedyanov , E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Zyablovsky

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems with symmetry is a cornerstone phenomenon accompanying second-order phase transitions. Here, we predict the opposite phenomenon, namely, spontaneous symmetry emergence in a system that lacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 T. T. Sergeev , E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Zyablovsky

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in nonlinear systems provides a unified method to understand vastly different phenomena, ranging from Higgs mechanism [1] and superconductivity [2] to ecological stability [3] and genome generation [4].…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-11 Chaohan Cui , Liang Zhang , Linran Fan

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a well-understood mechanism for generating distinct phases of matter. Recently, the notion of symmetry has been broadened to include operations without inverses, leading to the concept of non-invertible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Xie Chen , Shang Liu , Da-chuan Lu , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn

A geometric mechanism that may, in analogy to similar notions in physics, be considered as "symmetry breaking" in geometry is described, and several instances of this mechanism in differential geometry are discussed: it is shown how…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Andreas Fuchs , Udo Hertrich-Jeromin , Mason Pember

One common way to define spontaneous symmetry breaking involves explicit symmetry breaking. This definition can be used in any approach to Effective Field Theory, from perturbation theory to lattice simulations. It allows us to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-23 Leonardo Pedro

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 is an essential feature of modern science. We demonstrate that it also plays an important role in the physics of complex plasmas. Complex plasmas can serve as a powerful tool for observing and studying discrete…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 Sergey K. Zhdanov , Markus H. Thoma , Gregor E. Morfill

We describe an algebraic framework for studying the symmetry properties of integrable quantum systems on the half line. The approach is based on the introduction of boundary operators. It turns out that these operators both encode the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Mintchev , E. Ragoucy , P. Sorba

Spontaneous symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in physics ranging from the emergence of elementary particles to the phase transitions of matter. The spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry leads to a novel state of…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a key concept in physics that for decades has played a crucial role in the description of many physical phenomena in a large number of different areas, like particle physics, cosmology, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Smits , H. T. C. Stoof , P. van der Straten

We propose a new spontaneous supersymmetry breaking mechanism, in which extra compact dimensions play an important role. To illustrate our mechanism, we study a simple model consisting of two chiral superfields, where one spatial dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Sakamoto , M. Tachibana , K. Takenaga

We focus on an interesting dissipative system found in a photonics system. In this dissipative system, we theoretically identified that robust causality is generated and as a result, it becomes possible to produce behavior that can be…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-16 Toshiya Sato

We propose a fundamental setup for the realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and spontaneous antisymmetry breaking (SASB) in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the self-attractive and repulsive cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-15 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed , T. J. Taiwo

We study the $\mathcal{PT} $-symmetry breaking for the scattering problem in a one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian tight-binding lattice model with balanced gain and loss distributed on two adjacent sites. In the scattering process the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Baogang Zhu , Rong Lü , Shu Chen

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Sinéad M. Griffin , Michele Schiavina