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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

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

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

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

A brief introduction to the topic of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in conservative and dissipative nonlinear systems with an underlying double-well-potential structure is given. The reason is a discussion of a recent observation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-30 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

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

Beginning with Anderson (1972), spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in infinite quantum systems is often put forward as an example of (asymptotic) emergence in physics, since in theory no finite system should display it. Even the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 N. P. Landsman

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is the cornerstone of our understanding of quantum phases of matter. Recent works have generalized this concept to the domain of mixed states in open quantum systems, where symmetries can be realized in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xiaozhou Feng , Zihan Cheng , Matteo Ippoliti

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

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a general principle, that constitutes the underlying concept of a vast number of physical phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism and superconductivity in condensed matter physics to the Higgs mechanism in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Tomas Brauner

We explore the onset of spontaneous strong-to-weak symmetry breaking (SW-SSB) under U(1)-symmetric (i.e., charge-conserving) open-system dynamics. We define this phenomenon for quantum states and classical probability distributions, and…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a fundamental concept in many areas of physics, ranging from cosmology and particle physics to condensed matter. A prime example is the breaking of spatial translation symmetry, which underlies the formation…

Symmetry is one of the most general and useful concepts in physics. A theory or a system that has a symmetry is fundamentally constrained by it. The same constraints do not apply when the symmetry is broken. The quantitative determination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the symmetry that a physical system possesses, is not preserved for the ground state of the system. Although the procedure of symmetry breaking is quite clear from the mathematical point of view,…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Acus

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

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

A symmetry breaking (SB) involves an abrupt change in the set of microstates that a system can explore. This change has unavoidable thermodynamic implications. According to Boltzmann's microscopic interpretation of entropy, a shrinkage of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Edgar Roldan , Ignacio A Martinez , Juan MR Parrondo , Dmitri Petrov

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