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Time crystals are unexpected states of matter that spontaneously break time translation symmetry either in a discrete or continuous manner. However, spatially-mesoscale space-time crystals that break both the space and time symmetries have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Hanqing Zhao , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Ensembles of quantum chaotic systems are expected to exhibit energy eigenvalues with random-matrix-like level repulsion between pairs of energies separated by less than the inverse Thouless time. Recent research has shown that exact and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 Michael Winer , Brian Swingle

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in statistical mechanics primarily occurs during phase transitions at the thermodynamic limit where the Hamiltonian preserves inversion symmetry, yet the low-temperature free energy exhibits reduced symmetry.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shalom Rosner , Ronit D. Gross , Ella Koresh , Ido Kanter

Symmetry is a basic paradigm for analysis of problems in solid state physics, and to controllably break point-group symmetries is a powerful probe of novel forms of order. In this work, we apply two methods, controlled lattice strain and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-15 Daniel Brodsky , Mark Barber , Jan Bruin , Rodolfo Borzi , Santiago Grigera , Robin Perry , Andrew Mackenzie , Clifford Hicks

We present an analytical model for the theoretical analysis of spin dynamics and spontaneous symmetry breaking in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This allows for an excellent intuitive understanding of the processes and provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 M. Scherer , B. Lücke , O. Topic , G. Gebreyesus , F. Deuretzbacher , W. Ertmer , L. Santos , C. Klempt , J. J. Arlt

Strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SWSSB) defines a mixed-state phase of matter--without a pure-state counterpart--in which nonlinear observables such as the R\'enyi-2 correlator develop long-range order while conventional linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Chang Shu , Kai Zhang , Zhu-Xi Luo , Yizhi You , Kai Sun

We propose a one-dimensional nonlinear system of coupled anharmonic oscillators that dynamically undergoes a topological transition switching from the {disordered} and topologically trivial phase into the nontrivial one due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Roman S. Savelev , Maxim A. Gorlach , Alexander N. Poddubny

The simple examples of spontaneous breaking of various symmetries for the scalar theory with fundamental mass have been considered. Higgs generalizations on "fundamental mass" were introduced into the theory on a basis of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Umida Khodjaeva

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a property of Hamiltonian equilibrium states which, in the thermodynamic limit, retain a finite average value of an order parameter even after a field coupled to it is adiabatically turned off. In the…

In the models of brane construction, the isometry of a compactified space might be broken by branes. In four-dimensional effective Lagrangian, the breaking of the isometry is seen as the spontaneous breaking of the corresponding effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Tomohiro Matsuda

We investigate the phase diagram of a quantum spin-1 chain whose Hamiltonian is invariant under a global onsite $A_4$, translation and lattice inversion symmetries. We detect different gapped phases characterized by SPT order and symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-29 Abhishodh Prakash , Colin G. West , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We propose a new mechanism of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. The existence of extra dimensions with nontrivial topology plays an important role. We investigate new features resulting from this mechanism. One noteworthy feature is that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sakamoto , M. Tachibana , K. Takenaga

Motivated by an analogy with the conformal factor problem in gravitational theories of the $R+R^2$-type we investigate a $d$-dimensional Euclidean field theory containing a complex scalar field with a quartic self interaction and with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 O. Lauscher , M. Reuter , C. Wetterich

Symmetry-breaking transitions are a well-understood phenomenon of closed quantum systems in quantum optics, condensed matter, and high energy physics. However, symmetry breaking in open systems is less thoroughly understood, in part due to…

We demonstrate a novel mechanism for the formation of topological defects in a first order phase transition for theories in the presence of small explicit symmetry breaking terms. We carry out numerical simulations of collisions of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Sanatan Digal , Ajit M. Srivastava

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is related to the appearance of emergent phenomena, while a non-vanishing order parameter has been viewed as the sign of turning into such symmetry breaking phase. Recently, we have proposed a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 G. H. Dong , Y. N. Fang , C. P. Sun

In this study, we investigate the real-time dynamics during the spontaneous deformation of an unstable spherical black hole in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. For the initial value, the static solutions with spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-29 Zhuan Ning , Qian Chen , Yu Tian , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

In string or M theories, the spontaneous breaking of 10D or 11D Lorentz symmetry is required to describe our space-time. A direct approach to this issue is provided by the IIB matrix model. We study its 4D version, which corresponds to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , W. Bietenholz , F. Hofheinz , J. Nishimura

We introduce a waveguiding system composed of three linearly-coupled fractional waveguides, with a triangular (prismatic) transverse structure. It may be realized as a tri-core nonlinear optical fiber with fractional group-velocity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-17 Mateus C. P. dos Santos , Wesley B. Cardoso , Dmitry V. Strunin , Boris A. Malomed

The spontaneous breaking of parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry yields rich critical behavior in non-Hermitian systems, and has stimulated much interest, albeit most previous studies were performed within the single-particle or mean-field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-23 Jian-Song Pan , Wei Yi , Jiangbin Gong