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During the past decade, the experimental development of being able to create ever larger and heavier quantum superpositions has brought the discussion of the connection between microscopic quantum mechanics and macroscopic classical physics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel

We prove a strong form of spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry for a simple model of two-dimensional crystals with random defects in thermal equilibrium at low temperature. The defects consist of isolated missing atoms.

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Markus Heydenreich , Franz Merkl , Silke W. W. Rolles

Tower of States analysis is a powerful tool for investigating phase transitions in condensed matter systems. Spontaneous symmetry breaking implies a specific structure of the energy eigenvalues and their corresponding quantum numbers on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-28 Alexander Wietek , Michael Schuler , Andreas M. Läuchli

We discuss the well-known phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking for a linear sigma model for scalar and pseudoscalar mesons based on the meson composite structure and the normalization of the quantum states. To test our formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Amir H. Fariborz , Renata Jora

Time crystals are quantum systems which are able to reveal condensed matter behavior in the time domain. It is known that crystalization in time can be observed in a periodically driven many-body system when interactions between particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-02 Pawel Matus , Krzysztof Sacha

We present a numerical study of a two-lane version of the stochastic non-equilibrium model known as the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process. For such a system with open boundaries, and suitably chosen values of externally-imposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 S. L. A. de Queiroz , R. B. Stinchcombe

A spacetime crystal is a phase of matter that spontaneously develops periodic order in both space and time. Spacetime crystals have been experimentally observed in microscopic quantum many-body systems and, very recently, in a mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-11 Guoqing Liu , Jimin Bai , Matteo Baggioli , Jie Zhang

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a phenomenon of an alteration of a state symmetry without a change in the system symmetry. A transition from a state with unbroken symmetry to a state with broken symmetry leads to a qualitative change in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 A. R. Mukhamedyanov , E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Zyablovsky

Time crystals, a unique non-equilibrium quantum phenomenon with promising applications in current quantum technologies, mark a significant advance in quantum mechanics. Although traditionally studied in atom-cavity and optical lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi

Symmetry-breaking phase transitions are ubiquitous in condensed matter systems and in quantum field theories. There is also good reason to believe that they feature in the very early history of the Universe. At many such transitions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. W. B. Kibble

Depending on the coupling to the environment, symmetries of open quantum systems manifest in two distinct forms, the strong and the weak. We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking among phases with strong symmetry, weak symmetry, and no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ding Gu , Zijian Wang , Zhong Wang

Goldstone modes in the amorphous solid state, resulting from the spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry due to random localisation of particles, are discussed. Starting from a microscopic model with quenched disorder, the broken…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Swagatam Mukhopadhyay , Paul M. Goldbart , Annette Zippelius

The possibility of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in momentum space in a generic Lifshitz scalar model - a non-relativistic scalar field theory with higher spatial derivative terms - has been studied. We show that the minimum energy state,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-04 Subir Ghosh

Within random matrix theory, the statistics of the eigensolutions depend fundamentally on the presence (or absence) of time reversal symmetry. Accepting the Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture, this statement extends to quantum systems with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Tomsovic , D. Ullmo , T. Nagano

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a foundational concept in physics. In condensed matter, it characterizes conventional continuous phase transitions but is absent at topological phase transitions such as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-09 Michael F. Faulkner

Time crystal is a class of non-equilibrium phases with broken time-translational symmetry. Here we demonstrate the time crystal in a single-mode nonlinear cavity. The time crystal originates from the self-oscillation induced by a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Yaohua Li , Chenyang Wang , Yuanjiang Tang , Yong-Chun Liu

We show that the spontaneous symmetry breaking can be defined also for finite systems based on the properly defined jump probability between the ground states in the 2d and 3d Ising models on a square and a cubic lattice respectively. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 Fotis K. Diakonos , Yiannis F. Contoyiannis , Stelios M. Potirakis

We consider the homogeneous Bose gas in the three-dimensional unit torus, where $N$ particles interact via a two-body potential of the form $N^{-1} v(x)$. The system is studied at inverse temperatures of order $N^{-2/3}$, which corresponds…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Andreas Deuchert , Phan Thanh Nam , Marcin Napiorkowski

In this work, we analyze a scalar field model which gives rise to stable bound states in field space characterized by nonzero motion that breaks the underlying time translation symmetry of its Hamiltonian, known as time crystals. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Laura Mersini-Houghton