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The concepts of symmetry, symmetry breaking and gauge symmetries are discussed, their operational meaning being displayed by the observables {\em and} the (physical) states. For infinitely extended systems the states fall into physically…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Franco Strocchi

Schwinger-Dyson equations are used to study spontaneous chiral and parity symmetry breaking of three dimensional quantum electrodynamics with two-component fermions. This theory admits a topological photon mass that explicitly breaks parity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 P. M. Lo , E. S. Swanson

The equation which describes a particle diffusing in a logarithmic potential arises in diverse physical problems such as momentum diffusion of atoms in optical traps, condensation processes, and denaturation of DNA molecules. A detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ori Hirschberg , David Mukamel , Gunter M. Schütz

Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in three dimensional ($d=3$) quantum electrodynamics is understood as annihilation of an infrared-stable fixed point that describes the large-N conformal phase by another unstable fixed point at a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Igor F. Herbut

Energy level splitting from the unitary limit of contact interactions to the near unitary limit for a few identical atoms in an effectively one-dimensional well can be understood as an example of symmetry breaking. At the unitary limit in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 N. L. Harshman

If the structure of spacetime is discrete, then Lorentz symmetry should only be an approximation, valid at long length scales. At finite lattice spacings there will be small corrections to the Dirac evolution that could in principle be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Todd A. Brun , Leonard Mlodinow

Wave localization is a fundamental phenomenon that appears universally in both natural materials and artificial structures and plays a crucial role in understanding the various physical properties of a system. Usually, a localized state has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Xinrong Xie , Gan Liang , Fei Ma , Yulin Du , Yiwei Peng , Erping Li , Hongsheng Chen , Linhu Li , Fei Gao , Haoran Xue

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in one dimensional quantum mechanical problems in terms of two-point boundary problems which lead to singular potentials containing Dirac delta functions and its derivatives. We search for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 A. Restuccia , A. Sotomayor , V. Strauss

A search for supersymmetry anomalies requires an examination of the BRS cohomology of supersymmetric Yang-Mills coupled to chiral matter, and the physically interesting (on-shell) anomalies are those which cannot be eliminated using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Dixon

Geometric phase shift associated with an electron propagating through a dimerized-disordered continuum is shown to be 0, or $\pm \pi$ (modulo 2$\pi$), according as the associated circuit traversed in the two-dimensional parameter space…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Prabhakar Pradhan , N. Kumar

In critical systems, the effect of a localized perturbation affects points that are arbitrarily far from the perturbation location. In this paper, we study the effect of localized perturbations on the solution of the random dimer problem in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-19 Sergio Caracciolo , Riccardo Fabbricatore , Marco Gherardi , Raffaele Marino , Giorgio Parisi , Gabriele Sicuro

We generalize Bohr's complementarity principle for wave and particle properties to arbitrary quantum systems. We begin by noting that a particle-like state is represented by a spatially-localized wave function and its narrow probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 J. A. Vaccaro

Does the measurement of a quantum system necessarily break Lorentz invariance? We present a simple model of a detector that measures the spacetime localization of a relativistic particle in a Lorentz invariant manner. The detector does not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald Marolf , Carlo Rovelli

A significant asymmetry in baryon/antibaryon yields in the central region of high energy collisions is observed when the initial state has non-zero baryon charge. This asymmetry is connected with the possibility of a baryon charge diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-11 G. H. Arakelyan , C. Merino , C. Pajares , Yu. M. Shabelski

Observations or measurements taken of a quantum system (a small number of fundamental particles) are inherently random. If the state of the system depends on unknown parameters, then the distribution of the outcome depends on these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Richard D. Gill

For 1 Dimensional loop space, a nonlinear nonlocal transformation of fields is given to make the action of the self-interacting quantum field to the free one. A specific type of Classically broken symmetry is restored in Quantum theory. 1-D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-24 Pinaki Patra , Tanmay Mandal , Jyoti Prasad Saha

We consider a particle in harmonic oscillator potential, whose position is periodically measured with an instrument of finite precision. We show that the distribution of the measured positions tends to a limiting distribution when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Arnab Acharya , Debapriya Pal , Soumitro Banerjee , Ananda Dasgupta

We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-30 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

The concept of the random discretization of the space-time is suggested. It is the way to consistent compatible synthesis of quantum and relativistic principles and principle of geometrization. The basic idea of this concept is physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Afanas'ev

In this paper, we study the localization phenomena in a slender cylinder composed of an incompressible hyperelastic material subjected to axial tension. We aim to construct the analytical solutions based on a three-dimensional setting and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 Huihui Dai , Yanhong Hao , Zhen Chen