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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

The control of nonlinear processes and possible transitions to chaos in systems of interacting particles is a fundamental physical problem. We propose a new nonuniform solid-state plasma system, produced by the optical injection of current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Ya. Sherman , R. M. Abrarov , J. E. Sipe

Spontaneous synchronization has long served as a paradigm for behavioral uniformity that can emerge from interactions in complex systems. When the interacting entities are identical and their coupling patterns are also identical, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

The theory of symmetry breaking in presence of gauge fields is presented, following the historical track. Particular emphasis is placed upon the underlying concepts.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Englert

Systems with long-range interactions, such as self-gravitating clusters and magnetically confined plasmas, do not relax to the usual Boltzmann-Gibbs thermodynamic equilibrium, but become trapped in quasi-stationary states (QSS) the life…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Renato Pakter , Bruno Marcos , Yan Levin

In this introductory lecture, some basic features of the spontaneous symmetry breaking are discussed. More specifically, $\sigma $-model, non-linear realization, and some examples of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the non-relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Ling-Fong Li

Spontaneous symmetry breaking plays a fundamental role in many areas of condensed matter and particle physics. A fundamental problem in ecology is the elucidation of the mechanisms responsible for biodiversity and stability. Neutral theory,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-28 Claudio Borile , Miguel A. Muñoz , Sandro Azaele , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan

In the last years we have proposed the use of the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking with the purpose of generating perfect quadrature squeezing. Here we review previous work dealing with spatial (translational and rotational)…

Symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in modern physics. Although self-similarity is also a symmetry and appears ubiquitously in nature, a fundamental question is whether self-similarity breaking makes sense or not. Here, by identifying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-05 Weilun Yuan , Shuai Yin , Fan Zhong

For collectively interacting repulsive particles driven on triangular substrates, we show that for certain directions of drive a spontaneous symmetry breaking phenomena occurs where the particles can flow in one of two directions that are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We have calculated the ground state wave functions for a systems of multicomponent interacting fermions. We show that it describes the state with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. In the limit of an infinitely strong interaction it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Afonin , V. L. Gurevich , V. Yu. Petrov

Symmetry is a common feature of many combinatorial problems. Unfortunately eliminating all symmetry from a problem is often computationally intractable. This paper argues that recent parameterized complexity results provide insight into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Toby Walsh

We investigate what determines the shape of a particle condensate in situations when it emerges as a result of spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry. We consider a model with particles hopping between sites of a one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-22 B. Waclaw , J. Sopik , W. Janke , H. Meyer-Ortmanns

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

The spontaneous symmetry breaking in a vibro-fluidized low-density granular gas in three connected compartments is investigated. When the total number of particles in the system becomes large enough, particles distribute themselves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Javier Brey , R. Garcia-Rojo , F. Moreno , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

Modeling symmetry breaking is essential for understanding the fundamental changes in the behaviors and properties of physical systems, from microscopic particle interactions to macroscopic phenomena like fluid dynamics and cosmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Rui Wang , Elyssa Hofgard , Han Gao , Robin Walters , Tess E. Smidt

A spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism is used in quantum gravity to obtain a convergent positive definite density-matrix as the most general quantum state of Euclidean wormholes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz

The concepts of symmetry and its breakdown are investigated in two different terms according to whether the resulting asymmetry is universal or only obtained for a special configuration: we shall illustrate this by considering in the first…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Luca Fabbri

Symmetry breaking in two-dimensional layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including but not limited to spin-polarization effects, valley-contrasting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Luojun Du , Tawfique Hasan , Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Gui-Bin Liu , Yugui Yao , Chun Ning Lau , Zhipei Sun

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