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It is known that stable 2D solitons of the semi-vortex (SV) and mixed-mode (MM) types are maintained by the interplay of the cubic attractive nonlinearity and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in binary Bose-Einstein condensates. We introduce a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-14 Zhaopin Chen , Yongyao Li , Yan Liu , Boris A. Malomed

The basic ingredients of the Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Phenomenon and of the Higgs Mechanism are reviewed in these lectures of pedagogical character. Some relevant topics related with the breaking $\gs \rightarrow U(1)_{\rm em}$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Maria J. Herrero

It has long been speculated that the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of SO(D) occurs in matrix models obtained by dimensionally reducing super Yang-Mills theory in D=6,10 dimensions. In particular, the D=10 case corresponds to the IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

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 propose a framework to understand the unprecedented performance and robustness of deep neural networks using field theory. Correlations between the weights within the same layer can be described by symmetries in that layer, and networks…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-18 Ricky Fok , Aijun An , Xiaogang Wang

We investigate two concrete cases of phase transitions breaking a subsystem symmetry. The models are two classical compass models featuring line-flip and plane-flip symmetries and correspond to special limits of a Heisenberg-Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-23 Giovanni Canossa , Lode Pollet , Ke Liu

We explore chiral symmetry breaking in a magnetic field within a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model of interacting massless quarks including tensor channels. We show that the new interaction channels open up via Fierz identities due to the explicit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Efrain J. Ferrer , Vivian de la Incera , Israel Portillo , Matthew Quiroz

Motivated by the dimensional asymmetry characteristic of braneworlds, we populate the bulk spacetime with matter scalar fields, both real and complex, and couple them non-minimally to gravity. We derive the effective equations of motion on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-14 Orfeu Bertolami , Carla Carvalho

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

Systemic symmetry is introduced into our work to investigate the symmetries of different ZnO nanocrystals. Result shows that systemic symmetries obey the law of spontaneous symmetry breaking during the formation of ZnO nanocrystals. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yan Zhou , Junyan Zhang , Jiangong Li , Bin Zhang

We investigate spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in SU(N) gauge theories at large N using overlap fermions. The exact zero modes and the low-lying modes of the Dirac operator provide the tools to gain insight into the interplay between…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Cundy , M. Teper , U. Wenger

We introduce discrete systems in the form of straight (infinite) and ring-shaped chains, with two symmetrically placed nonlinear sites. The systems can be implemented in nonlinear optics (as waveguiding arrays) and BEC (by means of an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-07-17 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Boris A. Malomed

The Standard Model of particle physics and the $\Lambda$CDM model of cosmology provide an incomplete description of our Universe. Both models face challenges, including explaining the nature of dark matter, the origin of the Universe's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-24 Giacomo Ferrante

We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field on chiral symmetry breaking in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model at finite temperature and chemical potential. According to the Fock-Schwinger proper-time method, we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomohiro Inagaki , Daiji Kimura , Tsukasa Murata

Chiral symmetry breaking is ubiquitous in biological systems, from DNA to bacterial suspensions. A key unresolved problem is how chiral structures may spontaneously emerge from achiral interactions. We study a simple model of bacterial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-18 Rebekka E. Breier , Robin L. B. Selinger , Giovanni Ciccotti , Stephan Herminghaus , Marco G. Mazza

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

The concept of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) represents a real breakthrough for present description of fundamental interactions by means of gauge theories. Although the underlying ideas were ancient, their formalization required a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Ignazio A. Sardella

In this brief, the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of the $\varphi^4$ theory in phase space, is studied. This phase space results from the appropriate system of Poincare maps, produced in both the Minkowski and the Euclidean time. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-27 Y. Contoyiannis , S. G. Stavrinides , M. Kampitakis , M. P. Hanias , S. M. Potirakis , P. Papadopoulos

The Chiral Quark-Soliton Model of nucleons is based on two ideas: 1) the major role of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in hadron physics and 2) the relevance of the large number of colours limit for the real world. In these lectures I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri Diakonov

The fibre bundle formalism inherent to the construction of non-abelian Kaluza-Klein theories is presented and its associated dimensional reduction process analysed: is performed the dimensional reduction of G-invariant matter and gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui F. L. Matos