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It is shown that the Goldstone modes associated with a broken continuous symmetry lead to anomalously large fluctuations of the zero field order parameter at any temperature below T_c. In dimensions 2<d<4, the variance of the extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Zwerger

In this introductory lecture, some basic features of the spontaneous symmetry breaking are discussed. More specifically, $\sigma $-model, non-linear realization, and some examples of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the non-relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Ling-Fong Li

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a widespread phenomenon in several areas of physics. In this paper I wish to illustrate some situations where spontaneous symmetry breaking presents non obvious aspects. The first example is taken from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-24 Giovanni Jona-Lasinio

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a hallmark of equilibrium systems, typically characterized by a single critical point separating ordered and disordered phases. Recently, a novel class of non-equilibrium phase transitions was uncovered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Jonas Berx , Tan Van Vu , Carlos E. Fiore

The effect of spontaneous breaking of initial SO(3) symmetry is shown to be possible for an H-like atom in the ground state, when it is confined in a spherical box under general boundary conditions of "not going out" through the box surface…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 K. Sveshnikov , A. Tolokonnikov

We study phase transition behavior of the Heisenberg model on a distorted triangular lattice with competing interactions. The ground-state phase diagram indicates that underlying symmetry can be changed by tuning parameters. We focus on two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 Ryo Tamura , Shu Tanaka , Naoki Kawashima

Entanglement asymmetry is a relative entropy that faithfully diagnoses symmetry breaking in quantum states, possibly within a spatial subregion. In this work, we extend such framework to higher-form symmetries and compute entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Francesco Benini , Eduardo García-Valdecasas , Stathis Vitouladitis

We investigate the finite-temperature properties of the $S$=1/2 Shastry-Sutherland Heisenberg model using a quantum typicality method. In the intermediate plaquette state region, we naturally expect to realize the finite-temperature phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-14 Tokuro Shimokawa

A nonperturbative approach for spontaneous symmetry breaking is proposed. It is based on some properties of interacting field operators. As the consequences an additional terms like to m^2 A^2 appears in the initial Lagrangian.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

According to resummed perturbation theory, certain scalar theories have a global symmetry, which is restored in the vacuum but is broken at high temperatures. Recently, this phenomenon has been studied with 4d finite temperature lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Jansen , M. Laine

The dynamics of two active nonlinear resonators coupled to a linear resonator is studied theoretically. Possible stationary states and its dynamical stability are considered in detail. The spontaneous symmetry breaking is found and it is…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

We study the spontaneous decoherence of the coupled harmonic oscillators confined in a ring container, where the nearest-neighbor harmonic potentials are taken into consideration. Without any external symmetry breaking field or surrounding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Z. R. Gong , Z. W. Zhang , D. Z. Xu , N. Zhao , C. P. Sun

Entanglement asymmetry has emerged as a powerful tool for characterizing symmetry breaking in quantum many-body systems. In this Letter, we explore how symmetry is dynamically broken through the lens of entanglement asymmetry in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Hui Yu , Zi-Xiang Li , Shi-Xin Zhang

We investigate the spontaneous breaking of the SO(D) symmetry in matrix models, which can be obtained by the zero-volume limit of pure SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory in D = 6, 10 dimensions. The D = 10 case corresponds to the IIB matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-07 Tatsumi Aoyama , Jun Nishimura , Toshiyuki Okubo

Local gauge symmetries cannot break spontaneously, according to Elitzur's theorem, but this leaves open the possibility of breaking some global subgroup of the local gauge symmetry, which is typically the gauge symmetry remaining after…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Caudy , J. Greensite

Symmetry breaking induced by untwisted fermions in QED in a nonsimply connected spacetime with topology $S^{1}\times R^{3}$ is investigated. It is found that the discrete CPT symmetry of the theory is spontaneously broken by the appearance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. J. Ferrer , V. de la Incera , A. Romeo

We explore supersymmetry breaking in the light of a rich fixed-point structure of two-dimensional supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models with one supercharge using the functional renormalization group (RG). We relate the dynamical breaking of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Holger Gies , Franziska Synatschke , Andreas Wipf

We study the compatibility of spontaneous breaking of parity and successful cosmology in a left-right symmetric model where supersymmetry breaking is achieved in metastable vacua. We show that domain walls formed due to this breaking can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-09 Debasish Borah , Urjit A. Yajnik

One common way to define spontaneous symmetry breaking involves explicit symmetry breaking. This definition can be used in any approach to Effective Field Theory, from perturbation theory to lattice simulations. It allows us to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-23 Leonardo Pedro

We demonstrate that the martingale condition in the stock market can be interpreted as a vacuum condition when we express the financial equations in the Hamiltonian form. We then show that the symmetry under the changes of the prices is…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-24 Ivan Arraut , Alan Au , Alan Ching-biu Tse