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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

We study the effect of gradual symmetry breaking in a non-integrable system on the level fluctuation statistics. We consider the case when the symmetry is represented by a quantum number that takes one of two possible values, so that the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Abd El-Hady , A. Y. Abul-Magd , M. H. Simbel

Treating the gravitational field as a dynamical field, we study the spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by a scalar field under its self-interaction and non-minimal interaction with gravity in four dimensional space-time. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Je-An Gu , W-Y. P. Hwang

Analytic treatment of a non-equilibrium random system with large degrees of freedoms is one of most important problems of physics. However, little research has been done on this problem as far as we know. In this paper, we propose a new…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-08 Toru Aonishi , Koji Kurata , Masato Okada

We present a new picture of global symmetry breaking in quantum field theory and propose a novel realization of symmetry breaking phenomena in terms of the conserved charge associated with its symmetry. In particular, the fermion condensate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Fujita , M. Hiramoto , T. Homma , M. Matsumoto , H. Takahashi

We apply the quartic exponential variational approximation to the symmetry breaking phenomena of scalar field in three and four dimensions. We calculate effective potential and effective action for the time-dependent system by separating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jae Hyung Yee

Within the rigorous axiomatic framework for the description of quantum mechanical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, we show that the nonequilibrium steady state, constructed in the quasifree fermionic system corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Walter H. Aschbacher

In this thesis we study physics beyond the standard model focusing on the quantum field theory in higher-dimensional space-time with some boundary terms. The boundary term causes nontrivial consequences about the vacuum structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Abe

Spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry into a discrete one is related to time crystal formation. While the phenomenon is not possible in the ground state of a time-independent many-body system, it can occur in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 Arkadiusz Kosior , Andrzej Syrwid , Krzysztof Sacha

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the two dimensional kinetic Ising model in presence of a randomly varying (in time but uniform in space) magnetic field, has been studied both by Monte Carlo simulation and by solving the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Muktish Acharyya

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 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

First, the properties of a classical model of spontaneous symmetry breakdown are analyzed. Then, the pros and cons of some pedagogical non-relativistic quantum-mechanical models, also used to illustrate spontaneous symmetry breakdown, are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-07 R. Munoz , A. Garcia-Quiroz , Ernesto Lopez-Chavez , Encarnacion Salinas-Hernandez

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is studied within a simple version of the light-front sigma model with fermions. Its vacuum structure is derived by an implementation of global symmetries in terms of unitary operators in a finite volume with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 L. Martinovic , J. P. Vary

One necessary criterion for the thermalization of a nonequilibrium quantum many-particle system is ergodicity. It is, however, not sufficient in case where the asymptotic long-time state lies in a symmetry-broken phase but the initial state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-05 Markus Heyl , Matthias Vojta

Using Schwinger Variational Principle we solve the problem of quantum harmonic oscillator with time dependent frequency. Here, we do not take the usual approach which implicitly assumes an adiabatic behavior for the frequency. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 C. A. M. de Melo , B. M. Pimentel , J. A. Ramirez

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

We consider the phenomenon of forced symmetry breaking in a symmetric Hamiltonian system on a symplectic manifold. In particular we study the persistence of an initial relative equilibrium subjected to this forced symmetry breaking. We see…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Féthi Grabsi , James Montaldi , Juan-Pablo Ortega

In this article we study the symmetry breaking phenomenon of solutions of noncooperative elliptic systems. We apply the degree for G-invariant strongly indefinite functionals to obtain simultaneously a symmetry breaking and a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Piotr Stefaniak

We show that resonance phenomena can be treated as nonequilibrium phase transitions. Resonance phenomena, similar to equilibrium phase transitions, are accompanied by some kind of symmetry breaking and can be characterized by order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-16 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova