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Why does spontaneous symmetry breaking occur? Why is a state breaking symmetry realized? We explore an idea that measurement selects such a state even if a system is given in a state respecting the symmetry of the system. We point out that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Takaaki Monnai , Mauro Iazzi , Kazuya Yuasa

The aim of this paper is to propose a criterion of spontaneous symmetry breaking that makes reference to the properties of pure phases defined by a translationally invariant state. By avoiding any reference to the ground state, at the basis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-08 Carlo Heissenberg , Franco Strocchi

The spontaneous symmetry breaking of rotational O(N) symmetry in noncommutative field theory is investigated in a 2+1 dimensional model of scalar fields coupled through a combination of quartic and sextuple self-interactions. There are five…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. O. Girotti , M. Gomes , A. Yu. Petrov , V. O. Rivelles , A. J. da Silva

It is well known that continuous symmetries of quantum fields can be realized non-linearly, e.g. in the context of sigma models, and can also be spontaneously broken on non-compact spacetimes. In this note we study how these effects are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Federico Bonetti , Michele Del Zotto , Ruben Minasian

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is studied in the ultralocal limit of a scalar quantum field theory, that is when $E\approx m$ (or infrared limit). In this limit we show that a $ \varphi^4$ theory in the euclidean space in four-dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-13 Jorge Gamboa , Justo Lopez-Sarrion

The mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum systems is briefly reviewed, rectifying part of the standard wisdom on logical and mathematical grounds. The crucial role of the localization properties of the time evolution for the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 F. Strocchi

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 scalar field is quantized in the discretized light-front framework following the {\em standard} Dirac procedure and its infinite volume limit taken. The background field and the nonzero mode variables do not commute for finite volume;…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Prem P. Srivastava

A one-dimensional driven two-species model with parallel sublattice update and open boundaries is considered. Although the microscopic many-body dynamics is symmetric with respect to the two species and interactions are short-ranged, there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-27 Richard D. Willmann , Gunter M. Schuetz , Stefan Grosskinsky

In this work we investigate the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) induced by a classical background spacetime's curvature, via the 2 particle irreducible (2PI) non-perturbative effective action formalism. We use the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Vishal Nath , Kinsuk Roy , Sourav Bhattacharya

We study the spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in a field theoretical model in (2+1)-dimension, inspired by string theory. This model is a gauge theory of an anti-symmetric tensor field and a vector field (photon). The Nambu-Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Kiyoshi Higashijima , Naoto Yokoi

We study the conditions for spontaneous symmetry breaking of the (2+1)-dimensional noncommutative phi^6 model in the small-theta limit. In this regime, considering the model as a cutoff theory, it is reasonable to assume translational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. D. Barbosa

In this talk we use nonlinear realizations to study the spontaneous partial breaking of rigid and local supersymmetry.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Jonathan A. Bagger

In this work spontaneous (non-dynamical) breaking (effective hiding) of the unitary quantum mechanical dynamical symmetry (superposition) is considered. It represents an especial but very interesting case of the general formalism of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladan Pankovic , Milan Predojevic

Light is generally expected to travel through isotropic media independent of its direction. This makes it challenging to develop non-reciprocal optical elements like optical diodes or circulators, which currently rely on magneto-optical…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is related to the appearance of emergent phenomena, while a non-vanishing order parameter has been viewed as the sign of turning into such symmetry breaking phase. Recently, we have proposed a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 G. H. Dong , Y. N. Fang , C. P. Sun

A brief introduction to the topic of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in conservative and dissipative nonlinear systems with an underlying double-well-potential structure is given. The reason is a discussion of a recent observation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-30 Boris A. Malomed

We study a system involving a single quantum degree of freedom per site of the lattice interacting with a few neighbors (up to second neighbors), with the interactions chosen as to produce frustration. At zero temperature, this system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-29 Heitor Casasola , Carlos A. Hernaski , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Paula F. Bienzobaz

We describe spontaneous symmetry breaking in the powers of two optical modes coupled into a ring resonator, using a pair of coupled Lorentzian equations, featuring tunable self- and cross-phase modulation terms. We investigate a wide…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Lewis Hill , Gian-Luca Oppo , Michael T. M. Woodley , Pascal Del Haye

It is shown that nonlinear terms in equations of gravitons on the background of curved space-time of the expanding Universe can solve the problem of the negative square of the effective mass formally arising in linear approximation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 A. A. Grib , V. Yu. Dorofeev