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Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in a system when its Hamiltonian possesses a certain symmetry, whereas the ground state wave functions do not preserve it. This provides such a scenario that a bifurcation, which breaks the symmetry,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jian-Hui Zhao , Hong-Lei Wang , Bo Li , Huan-Qiang Zhou

Spontaneous symmetry breaking generally circumvents one-dimensional systems with local interactions in thermal equilibrium. Here, we analyze a category of one-dimensional Hermitian models via local non-Hermitian constructions. Notably,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Jia-Bao Wang , Zi-Hao Dong , Yi Zhang

The phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking is investigated in the dynamic thermalization of a degenerate quantum system. A three-level system interacting with a heat bath is carefully studied to this end. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 Jie-Qiao Liao , H. Dong , X. G. Wang , X. F. Liu , C. P. Sun

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

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

In this work, we present evidence for the spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry in a nearest-neighbour interacting spin-1 chain tuned to a quantum critical point at $T=0$ between two XY quasi-long-range order phases differing by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 R. Flores-Calderón , M. Zündel

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a foundational concept in physics. In condensed matter, it characterizes conventional continuous phase transitions but is absent at topological phase transitions such as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-09 Michael F. Faulkner

We analyze the spontaneous $U(1)_R$ symmetry breaking at finite temperature for the simple O'Raifeartaigh-type model introduced in [1] in connection with spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. We calculate the finite temperature effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-09 E. F. Moreno , F. A. Schaposnik

In analogy with equilibrium phase transitions, we address the problem of the instability to symmetry-breaking perturbations of systems undergoing a laser transition. The symmetry in question is the $U(1)$ invariance with respect to a phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 P. Gartner

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

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 originats in quantum mechanical measurement of the relevant observable defining the physical situation, order parameter is the average of this observable. A modification is made on the random-phase postulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu Shi

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

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

We investigate the influence of spontaneous symmetry breaking on the decoherence of a many-particle quantum system. This decoherence process is analyzed in an exactly solvable model system that is known to be representative of symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink , Jan Zaanen

The description of spontaneous symmetry breaking that underlies the connection between classically ordered objects in the thermodynamic limit and their individual quantum mechanical building blocks is one of the cornerstones of modern…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel

We examine one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) models of linearly coupled lattices of the discrete-nonlinear-Schr{\"{o}}dinger type. Analyzing ground states of the systems with equal powers in the two components, we find a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-12-10 G. Herring , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis

It has been recently suggested that a totally asymmetric exclusion process with two species on an open chain could exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking in some range of the parameters defining its dynamics. The symmetry breaking is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Godreche , J. M. Luck , M. R. Evans , D. Mukamel , S. Sandow , E. R. Speer

In a quantum many-body system coupled to the environment, its steady state can exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking when a control parameter exceeds a critical value. In this study, we consider spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Taiki Haga
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