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Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a well-understood mechanism for generating distinct phases of matter. Recently, the notion of symmetry has been broadened to include operations without inverses, leading to the concept of non-invertible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Xie Chen , Shang Liu , Da-chuan Lu , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn

Supersymmetry is one of the most plausible and theoretically motivated frameworks for extending the Standard Model. However, any supersymmetry in Nature must be a broken symmetry. Dynamical supersymmetry breaking (DSB) is an attractive idea…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yael Shadmi , Yuri Shirman

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

We study a system of two hardcore bosonic Hubbard models weakly coupled with each other by tunneling. Assuming that the single uncoupled model exhibits off-diagonal long-range order, we prove that the coupled system exhibits spontaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hal Tasaki

A theoretical consideration of the so-called "membrane-in-the-middle" optomechanical cavity revealed that it undergoes a spontaneous symmetry breaking as a function of the transparency of the membrane. Such typical features of this…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. K. Tagantsev

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

The notion induced symmetry breaking (ISB) is introduced as a generalization of the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism and is illustrated in a simple two flavor spin model. In the case of QCD at finite baryon density, I argue that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kurt Langfeld

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

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

The mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum systems is briefly reviewed, rectifying part of the standard wisdom on logical and mathematical grounds. The crucial role of the localization properties of the time evolution for the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 F. Strocchi

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

The existence of various physical phenomena stems from the concept called asymptotic emergence, that is, they seem to be exclusively reserved for certain limiting theories. Important examples are spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Christiaan J. F. van de Ven

A spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism is used in quantum gravity to obtain a convergent positive definite density-matrix as the most general quantum state of Euclidean wormholes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz

We point out a basic ambiguity in the $p \to 0$ limit of the connected propagator in a spontaneously broken phase. This may represent an indication that the conventional singlet Higgs boson, rather than being a purely massive field, might…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Consoli

The foundations of the mass generation mechanism of particles are reviewed. The Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) process within the standard model (SM) and the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) is used to explore the present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-07 Nils M. Bezares-Roder , Hemwati Nandan

We show how the widely used concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking can be explained in causal perturbation theory by introducing a perturbative version of quantum gauge invariance. Perturbative gauge invariance, formulated exclusively by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Aste , Michael D"utsch , G"unter Scharf

We propose a novel framework to analyze symmetry breaking in dynamical systems through the lens of entropy and information transfer. Information transfer quantifies the directional exchange of entropy between observables, allowing us to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Subhrajit Sinha , Parvathi Kooloth

Panic-induced herding in individuals often leads to social disasters, resulting in people being trapped and trampled in crowd stampedes triggered by panic. We introduce a novel approach that offers fresh insights into studying the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-03 C. S. Kim , Claudio Dib , Sechul Oh

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) plays a central role in understanding a large variety of phenomena associated with phase transitions, such as superfluid and superconductivity. So far, the transition from a symmetric vacuum to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Wen Ning , Ri-Hua Zheng , Jia-Hao Lü , Fan Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

We review the subject of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. First we consider supersymmetry breaking in a semiclassical theory. We illustrate it with several examples, demonstrating different phenomena, including metastable supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenneth Intriligator , Nathan Seiberg