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Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a key concept in physics that for decades has played a crucial role in the description of many physical phenomena in a large number of different areas, like particle physics, cosmology, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Smits , H. T. C. Stoof , P. van der Straten

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is studied in the ultralocal limit of a scalar quantum field theory, that is when $E\approx m$ (or infrared limit). In this limit we show that a $ \varphi^4$ theory in the euclidean space in four-dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-13 Jorge Gamboa , Justo Lopez-Sarrion

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 propose a new scenario to implement spontaneous symmetry breaking in the space-time of an arbitrary dimension (D>2) by introducing the non-minimal coupling between the scalar field and the gravity. In this scenario, the usage of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Je-An Gu , W-Y. P. Hwang

Field theories compactified on non-simply connected spaces, which in general allow to impose twisted boundary conditions, are found to unexpectedly have a rich phase structure. One of characteristic features of such theories is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisaki Hatanaka , Seiho Matsumoto , Katsuhiko Ohnishi , Makoto Sakamoto

We investigate about the existence of static solitons solutions in the inverse G-L free energy in phase transitions of {\phi}4 theory. We calculate all the characteristics of these solitons , like localized structure, finite energy and mass…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-26 Y. Contoyiannis , P. Papadopoulos , M. Kampitakis , M. P. Hanias , S. G. Stavrinides

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

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is responsible for structure formation in scenarios ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. SSB is broadly understood in terms of perturbations to the Hamiltonian governing the dynamics or to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-02 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Diego Tielas , Adolfo del Campo

We present the theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of discrete time translations as recently realized in the space-time crystals of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The non-equilibrium physics related to such a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-10 J. N. Stehouwer , J. Smits , P. van der Straten , H. T. C. Stoof

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

We study a system involving a single quantum degree of freedom per site of the lattice interacting with a few neighbors (up to second neighbors), with the interactions chosen as to produce frustration. At zero temperature, this system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-29 Heitor Casasola , Carlos A. Hernaski , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Paula F. Bienzobaz

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the underlying laws of a physical system are symmetric, but the vacuum state chosen by the system is not. The (3+1)d $\phi^4$ theory is relatively simple compared to other more complex theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-24 Chen-Te Ma , Yiwen Pan , Hui Zhang

We present a clear and mathematically simple procedure explaining spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum mechanical systems. The procedure is applicable to a wide range of models and can be easily used to explain the existence of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in phi^4_(1+1) using the light-front formulation of the field theory. Since the physical vacuum is always the same as the perturbative vacuum in light-front field theory the fields must develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 Carl M. Bender , Stephen Pinsky , Brett Van de Sande

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is well understood under equilibrium conditions as a consequence of the singularity of the thermodynamic limit. How a single global orientation of the order parameter dynamically emerges from an initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Jasper van Wezel

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

The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) generally lacks a simple and intuitive introduction in the literature. This gap is filled by defining SSB in a universal context beyond its usual applications in physics and by discussing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Andreas Aste

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is responsible for the rich phenomena in equilibrium physics. Driving a system out-of-equilibrium can significantly enrich the possibility of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which occurs not only in space, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Mingxi Yue , Zi Cai
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