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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 symmetry breaking (SSB) in quantum systems, such as ferromagnets, is normally described as (or as arising from) degeneracy of the ground state; however, it is well established that this degeneracy only occurs in spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 David Wallace

We introduce a one-dimensional two-component system with the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity concentrated at a symmetric set of two spots. Effects of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of localized modes were previously studied in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Arturas Acus , Boris A. Malomed , Yakov Shnir

With the elements of the Doplicher, Fredenhagen and Roberts (DFR) noncommutative formalism, we have constructed the standard electroweak model. To accomplish this task we have begun with the WM-product basis group of symmetry. We have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. J. Neves , Everton M. C. Abreu

A formalism for electronic-structure calculations is presented that is based on the functional renormalization group (FRG). The traditional FRG has been formulated for systems that exhibit a translational symmetry with an associated Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Christian Seiler , Ferdinand Evers

Symmetry breaking has been a central theme in classifying quantum phases and phase transitions. Recently, this concept has been extended to the mixed states of open systems, attracting considerable attention due to the emergence of novel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuxuan Guo , Sheng Yang , Xue-Jia Yu

The spontaneous symmetry breaking in the quantum sine-Gordon model is studied by a density matrix renormalization group. A phase diagram in the coupling constant - system size plane is obtained.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Chung

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. One of the defining features of symmetry broken phases is that the large system size limit and the vanishing external field limit do not commute. In this work, we study a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-24 Yaozong Hu , Haruki Watanabe

We explore the possibility of the spontaneous symmetry breaking in 5D conformally invariant gravity, whose action consists of a scalar field nonminimally coupled to the curvature with its potential. Performing dimensional reduction via ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-18 Taeyoon Moon , Phillial Oh

The locality of field theories strongly constrains the possible behaviors of symmetry-twisted partition functions, and thus they serve as order parameters to detect low-energy realizations of global symmetries, such as spontaneous symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-06 Shinichiro Akiyama , Raghav G. Jha , Jun Maeda , Yuya Tanizaki , Judah Unmuth-Yockey

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in statistical physics is a macroscopic collective phenomenon. For the paradigmatic Q-state Potts model it means a transition from the disordered color-symmetric phase to an ordered phase in which one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Hai-Jun Zhou

In the last years we have proposed the use of the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking with the purpose of generating perfect quadrature squeezing. Here we review previous work dealing with spatial (translational and rotational)…

The physical world is marked by the phenomenon of spontaneous broken symmetry (SBS) i.e. where the state of a system is assymmetric with respect to the symmetry principles that govern its dynamics. For material systems this is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Brout

We propose a local notion of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW-SSB), through a local one-point fidelity correlator. Compared with the previous definition in terms of a two-point fidelity correlator, our local formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Francisco Divi , Leonardo A. Lessa , Chong Wang

We explore the states of matter arising from the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ non-onsite symmetries. In one spatial dimension, we construct a frustration-free lattice model exhibiting SSB of a non-onsite symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhehao Zhang , Yabo Li , Tsung-Cheng Lu

We analyze the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance in Galilean invariant field theories. We show that the existence of a dynamic gapless dilaton mode depends on whether the $U(1)$ particle number or the Galilean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-08 Igal Arav , Itamar Hason , Yaron Oz

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

We investigate competition between two phase transitions of the second kind induced by the self-attractive nonlinearity, viz., self-trapping of the leaky modes, and spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of both fully trapped and leaky states.…

The scalar field is quantized in the discretized light-front framework following the {\em standard} Dirac procedure and its infinite volume limit taken. The background field and the nonzero mode variables do not commute for finite volume;…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Prem P. Srivastava

For relativistic quantum field theories, we consider Lorentz breaking, spatially homogeneous field configurations or states that evolve in time along a symmetry direction. We dub this situation "spontaneous symmetry probing" (SSP). We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Alberto Nicolis , Federico Piazza