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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 propose a fundamental setup for the realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and spontaneous antisymmetry breaking (SASB) in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the self-attractive and repulsive cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-15 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed , T. J. Taiwo

The combination of linear and nonlinear potentials, both shaped as a single well, enables competition between the confinement and expulsion induced by the former and latter potentials, respectively. We demonstrate that this setting leads to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-18 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Mikhail E. Lebedev , Georgy L. Alfimov , Boris A. Malomed

We report results of the analysis of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in the basic (actually, simplest) model which is capable to produce the SSB phenomenology in the one-dimensional setting. It is based on the Gross-Pitaevskii -…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Elad Shamriz , Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

The paper combines two topics belonging to the general theme of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in systems including two basic competing ingredients: the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity and a double-well-potential (DWP) structure.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-30 Boris A. Malomed

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) occurs when a many-body system governed by a symmetric Hamiltonian, and prepared in a symmetry-broken state by the application of a field coupling to its order parameter $O$, retains a finite $O$ value…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Filippo Caleca , Saverio Bocini , Fabio Mezzacapo , Tommaso Roscilde

We consider the dynamical model of a binary bosonic gas trapped in a symmetric dual-core cigar-shaped potential. The setting is modeled by a system of linearly-coupled one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equations with the cubic self-repulsive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-15 Bin Liu , Hua-Feng Zhang , Rong-Xuan Zhong , Xi-Liang Zhang , Xi-Zhou Qin , Chunqing Huang , Yong-Yao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce two- and one-dimensional (2D and 1D) systems of two linearly-coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) with the cubic self-attraction and harmonic-oscillator (HO) trapping potential in each GPE. The system models a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-03 Zhaopin Chen , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed , Luca Salasnich

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) occurs when modes of asymmetric profile appear in a symmetric, double-well potential, due to the nonlinearity of the potential exceeding a critical value. In this study, we examine SSB in a periodic…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-21 Ruihan Peng , Qidong Fu , Yejia Chen , Weidong Luo , Changming Huang , Fangwei Ye

We introduce a one-dimensional two-component system with the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity concentrated at a symmetric set of two spots. Effects of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of localized modes were previously studied in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Arturas Acus , Boris A. Malomed , Yakov Shnir

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

In this article, we study the two-mode method to analyze the Josephson oscillation for a trapped binary Bose-Einstein condensate while taking into account the beyond mean-field and three body interactions. For this purpose, we use the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-03 Shivam Singh , Ibrar , Suhail Rashid , Ayan Khan

We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of a superfluid Bose-Fermi (BF) mixture in a double-well potential (DWP). The mixture is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) for the bosons, coupled to an equation for the order…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 S. K. Adhikari , B. A. Malomed , L. Salasnich , F. Toigo

We explore the states of matter arising from the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ non-onsite symmetries. In one spatial dimension, we construct a frustration-free lattice model exhibiting SSB of a non-onsite symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhehao Zhang , Yabo Li , Tsung-Cheng Lu

We propose a model of a nonlinear double-well potential (NDWP), alias a double-well pseudopotential, with the objective to study an alternative implementation of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed , Guangjiong Dong

In this paper we introduce a one-dimensional model of coupled fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with a double-well potential applied to one component. This study examines ground state (GS) solitons, observing spontaneous symmetry…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Mateus C. P. dos Santos , Wesley B. Cardoso

We analyze the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) induced by one specific component of a linearly coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The model is based on linearly coupled Schr\"odinger equations with cubic nonlinearity and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-15 Mateus C. P. dos Santos , Wesley B. Cardoso

Systems with long-range interactions, such as self-gravitating clusters and magnetically confined plasmas, do not relax to the usual Boltzmann-Gibbs thermodynamic equilibrium, but become trapped in quasi-stationary states (QSS) the life…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Renato Pakter , Bruno Marcos , Yan Levin

Symmetry in mixed quantum states can manifest in two distinct forms: strong symmetry, where each individual pure state in the quantum ensemble is symmetric with the same charge, and weak symmetry, which applies only to the entire ensemble.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Leonardo A. Lessa , Ruochen Ma , Jian-Hao Zhang , Zhen Bi , Meng Cheng , Chong Wang

We investigate an attractive atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped by a double-well potential in the axial direction and by a harmonic potential in the transverse directions. We obtain numerically, for the first time, a quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-04 Giovanni Mazzarella , Luca Salasnich
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