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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…

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We consider the thermodynamically driven self-assembly of spheres onto the surface of a central sphere. This assembly process forms self-limiting, or terminal, anisotropic clusters (N-clusters) with well defined structures. We use Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Carolyn L. Phillips , Eric Jankowski , Michelle Marval , Sharon C. Glotzer

Co-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) and nanostructured polymer matrix represents an intricate interplay of enthalpic or entropic forces. Particle size largely affects the phase behavior of the nanocomposite. Theoretical studies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-25 Le Ma , Hejin Huang , Peter Ercius , Alfredo Alexander-Katz , Ting Xu

We study the localization in the one-dimensional trap model in terms of statistical mechanics of trajectories. By numerically investigating overlap between trajectories of two particles on a common disordered potential, we find that there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-14 Masahiko Ueda , Shin-ichi Sasa

In this brief report we adress spontaneous symmetry breaking in a finite-temperature scalar meson plasma. We calculate the in-medium averaged thermal $\sigma-\sigma$ scattering crossection and the related shear viscosity $\eta(T)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. C. Witte

Using the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance obtained from the dynamics of maximal rank field strengths, it is possible to spontaneously generate confining behavior. Introducing a dilaton field, the study of non…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. I. Guendelman

Finite systems in confining potentials are known to undergo structural transitions similar to phase transitions. However, these systems are inhomogeneous, and their "melting" point may depend on the position in the trap and vary with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 H. Thomsen , M. Bonitz

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking in phase transitions occurs when the system Hamiltonian is symmetric under a certain transformation, but the equilibrium states observed in nature are not. Here, we prove that when a discrete symmetry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

This article investigates the properties of a few interacting particles trapped in a few wells and how these properties change under adiabatic tuning of interaction strength and inter-well tunneling. While some system properties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 N. L. Harshman

We review some recent results on finite dimensional spin glasses by studying recent numerical simulations and their relationship with experiments. In particular we will show results obtained at zero and non zero temperature, focusing in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

One emerging approach for the fabrication of complex architectures on the nanoscale is to utilize particles customized to intrinsically self-assemble into a desired structure. Inverse methods of statistical mechanics have proven…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-08 R. B. Jadrich , B. A. Lindquist , T. M. Truskett

It is shown that the single-particle spin-orbit coupling terms, which---in the cold atom context---are associated with synthetic gauge fields, can significantly and non-trivially modify the phase accumulation at small interparticle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-01 Q. Guan , D. Blume

The review considers the peculiarities of symmetry breaking and symmetry transformations and the related physical effects in finite quantum systems. Some types of symmetry in finite systems can be broken only asymptotically. However, with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. L. Birman , R. G. Nazmitdinov , V. I. Yukalov

Synthetic dimension platforms offer unique pathways for engineering quantum matter. We compute the phase diagram of a many-body system of ultracold atoms (or polar molecules) with a set of Rydberg states (or rotational states) as a…

Advances in synthetic methods have spawned an array of nanoparticles and bio-inspired molecules of diverse shapes and interaction geometries. Recent experiments indicate that such anisotropic particles exhibit a variety of 'nonclassical'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-20 Stephen Whitelam

In this paper we discuss a disordered $d$-dimensional Euclidean $\lambda\varphi^{4}$ model. The dominant contribution to the average free energy of this system is written as a series of the replica partition functions of the model. In each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 R. Acosta Diaz , G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter , C. A. D. Zarro

Particle interactions are key elements of many dynamical systems. In the context of systems described by a Boltzmann equation, such interactions may be described by a collision integral, a multidimensional integral over the momentum-phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-27 Christopher N. Everett , Garret Cotter

A cornerstone of the theory of phase transitions is the observation that many-body systems exhibiting a spontaneous symmetry breaking in the thermodynamic limit generally show extensive fluctuations of an order parameter in large but finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 H. Wilming , M. J. Kastoryano , A. H. Werner , J. Eisert

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and emergent polar order are each of fundamental importance to a range of scientific disciplines, as well as generating rich phase behaviour in liquid crystals (LCs). Here, we show the union of these phenomena…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-06 Calum Gibb , Jordan Hobbs , Diana Nikolova , Tom Raistrick , Helen Gleeson , Richard Mandle

Our goal in this work is to better understand the relationship between replica symmetry breaking, shattering, and metastability. To this end, we study the static and dynamic behaviour of spherical pure $p$-spin glasses above the replica…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Gérard Ben Arous , Aukosh Jagannath