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We introduce a model governing the copropagation of two components which represent circular polarizations of light in the optical fiber with relative strength g = 2 of the nonlinear repulsion between the components, and linear coupling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-23 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

We show that at the leading order in the large-$N$ expansion a lattice QCD motivated linear rising confinement potential at large distances leads to a non-local four-quark interaction that realizes spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 A. N. Ivanov , N. I. Troitskaya , M. Faber , M. Schaler , M. Nagy

Spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in QCD has traditionally been inferred indirectly through low-energy theorems and comparison with experiments. Thanks to the understanding of an unexpected connection between chiral Random Matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 P. H. Damgaard

We consider real and complex scalar fields non-minimally coupled to gravity in the bulk spacetime and study their impact on the brane upon acquiring a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value. When examining the case of the complex scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Orfeu Bertolami , Carla Carvalho

We investigate competition between two phase transitions of the second kind induced by the self-attractive nonlinearity, viz., self-trapping of the leaky modes, and spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of both fully trapped and leaky states.…

We study chiral symmetry breaking in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model regularized in proper-time in arbitrary space-time dimensions through an iterative procedure by writing the gap equation in the form of a discrete dynamical system with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-03 Aftab Ahmad , Angelo Martínez , Alfredo Raya

Gravity is usually considered to be irrelevant as far as the physics of elementary particles is concerned and, in particular, in the context of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) mechanism. We describe a version of the SSB mechanism in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Kirill Krasnov

We investigate the spontaneous breaking of subsystem symmetries directly in the context of continuum field theories by calculating the correlation function of charged operators. Our methods confirm the lack of spontaneous symmetry breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 Jacques Distler , Andreas Karch , Amir Raz

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

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

The hypothesis that the magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking is due to interactions of massless fermions in their lowest Landau level is examined in the context of chirally symmetric models with short ranged interactions. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. W. Semenoff , I. A. Shovkovy , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

The pattern of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) in confining background fields is analyzed. It is explicitly demonstrated how to get the inverse square root large proper time asymptotic of the operator product expansion which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Shevchenko

A semiclassical picture of spontaneous symmetry breaking in light front field theory is formulated. It is based on a finite-volume quantization of self-interacting scalar fields obeying antiperiodic boundary conditions. This choice avoids a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 L. Martinovic

Considering QCD in an Euclidean box, the mechanism of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry (SB$\chi$S) is analyzed in terms of average properties of lowest eigenstates of the Dirac operator. A formal analogy between the pion decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Stern

The spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry is examined by chiral effective theories, such as the linear sigma model and the Nambu Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. Indicating that sufficiently large contribution of the UA(1) anomaly can break…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-11 Shinnosuke Kono , Daisuke Jido , Yoshiki Kuroda , Masayasu Harada

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

A search for supersymmetry anomalies requires an examination of the BRS cohomology of supersymmetric Yang-Mills coupled to chiral matter, and the physically interesting (on-shell) anomalies are those which cannot be eliminated using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Dixon

We extend the well-known theoretical treatment of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in two-component systems, combining linear coupling and self-attractive nonlinearity, to a system in which the linear coupling competes with repulsive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-12 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

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 introduce a system composed of two (2+1)-dimensional baby-skyrmion models (BSMs) set on parallel planes and linearly coupled by tunneling of fields. This system can be realized in a dual-layer ferromagnetic medium. Unlike dual-core…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Boris A. Malomed , Yakov Shnir , Gleb Zhilin