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We study eigenstate thermalization and related signatures of quantum chaos in the one-dimensional ferromagnetic transverse-field Ising model with power-law interactions. The presence of long-range interactions allows for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-13 Keith R. Fratus , Mark Srednicki

Spontaneous synchronization has long served as a paradigm for behavioral uniformity that can emerge from interactions in complex systems. When the interacting entities are identical and their coupling patterns are also identical, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism describes the formation of topological defects during spontaneous symmetry breaking for quite different systems. Shortly after the big bang, the isotropy of the Higgs-field is broken during the expansion and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-17 Patrick Dillmann , Georg Maret , Peter Keim

We propose a new mechanism of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in noncommutative gauge theories. We find that in N=1 noncommutative gauge theories both supersymmetry and gauge invariance are dynamically broken. Supersymmetry is broken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Chong-Sun Chu , Valentin V. Khoze , Gabriele Travaglini

We present a theoretical study of the interaction between an atom characterized by a degenerate ground state and a reciprocal environment, such as a semiconductor nanoparticle, without the presence of external bias. Our analysis reveals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Mário G. Silveirinha , Hugo Terças , Mauro Antezza

We propose a form of spontaneous symmetry breaking driven by zero-point quantum fluctuations. To be specific, we consider the low-energy dynamics of a mixture of two species of spin-$1$ Bose gases. It is demonstrated that the quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-28 Li Ge , Fei Zhou , Yu Shi

Zero resistance differential states have been observed in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) subject to a magnetic field and a strong dc current. In a recent work we presented a model to describe the nonlinear transport regime of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manuel Torres , Alejandro Kunold

Crystalline membranes are one of the rare examples of bidimensional systems in which long-range order can stabilise an ordered phase in the thermodynamic limit. By a careful analysis of the Goldstone modes counting, we propose a symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 O. Coquand

We discuss the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking by means of a class of non-perturbative renormalization group flow equations which employ a regulating smearing function in the proper-time integration. We show, both analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Bonanno , G. Lacagnina

When matter undergoes a phase transition from one state to another, usually a change in symmetry is observed, as some of the symmetries exhibited are said to be spontaneously broken. The superconducting phase transition in the underdoped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Kaminski , S. Rosenkranz , H. M. Fretwell , J. C. Campuzano , Z. Li , H. Raffy , W. G. Cullen , H. You , C. G. Olson , C. M. Varma , H. H"ochst

We introduce discrete systems in the form of straight (infinite) and ring-shaped chains, with two symmetrically placed nonlinear sites. The systems can be implemented in nonlinear optics (as waveguiding arrays) and BEC (by means of an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-07-17 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Boris A. Malomed

Spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking plays an important role in studying strongly correlated unconventional superconductors. When two superconducting gap functions with different symmetries compete, the relative phase channel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-22 Meng Zeng , Lun-Hui Hu , Hong-Ye Hu , Yi-Zhuang You , Congjun Wu

This works presents a perturbative analysis of the supersymmetric Chern-Simons model in three spacetime dimensions coupled to a Higgs field, using the superfield formalism. We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the U(1) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. C. Lehum , A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , A. J. da Silva

We discuss the question of inverse symmetry breaking at non-zero temperature using the exact renormalization group. We study a two-scalar theory and concentrate on the nature of the phase transition during which the symmetry is broken. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Pietroni , N. Rius , N. Tetradis

Global symmetries of quantum many-body systems can be spontaneously broken. Whenever this mechanism happens, the ground state is degenerate and one encounters an ordered phase. In this study, our objective is to investigate this phenomenon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Luca Capizzi , Michele Mazzoni

We explore the dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous system by thermally quenching an atomic gas with short-range interactions through the Bose-Einstein phase transition. Using homodyne matter-wave interferometry to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-12 Nir Navon , Alexander L. Gaunt , Robert P. Smith , Zoran Hadzibabic

Critical points and phase transitions are characterized by diverging susceptibilities, reflecting the tendency of the system toward spontaneous symmetry breaking. Equilibrium statistical mechanics bounds these instabilities to occur at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Orazio Scarlatella , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schiró

We consider heterostructures consisting of regions with a continuous symmetry in contact with regions wherein the symmetry is spontaneously broken. The low-frequency dynamics of the corresponding order parameter are shown to induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas

In gauge theories, spontaneous breaking of the centre symmetry provides a precise definition of deconfinement. In large-$N$ gauge theories, evidence has emerged recently that between confined and deconfined phases a partially-deconfined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Masanori Hanada , Jack Holden , Matthew Knaggs , Andy O'Bannon

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