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We review mechanisms of dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Several observations that narrow the search for possible models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking are summarized. These observations include the necessary and sufficient conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Witold Skiba

A theoretical consideration of the so-called "membrane-in-the-middle" optomechanical cavity revealed that it undergoes a spontaneous symmetry breaking as a function of the transparency of the membrane. Such typical features of this…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. K. Tagantsev

This article reviews the subject of supersymmetry and its breaking. The emphasis is on recent developments in metastable, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, which permit the construction of promising models of particle physics.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael Dine , John D. Mason

Symmetry is one of the most central concepts in physics, and it is no surprise that it has also been widely adopted as an inductive bias for machine-learning models applied to the physical sciences. This is especially true for models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Marcel F. Langer , Sergey N. Pozdnyakov , Michele Ceriotti

We propose a new type of symmetry breaking mechanism that takes boundaries into account, and show how it can detect surface modes by interpreting them as the order parameter associated with a generalized symmetry breaking. We argue that…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Sinéad M. Griffin , Michele Schiavina

The mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum systems is briefly reviewed, rectifying part of the standard wisdom on logical and mathematical grounds. The crucial role of the localization properties of the time evolution for the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 F. Strocchi

This is a review of basic ideas and mechanisms encountered in the supersymmetry breaking problem at the global level, in supergravity models, and in superstring theory.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. R. Taylor

I review the motivation for dynamical supersymmetry breaking, the various mechanisms which have been discovered, and the prospects for model building.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Ann E. Nelson

The paper investigates the spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries in gauge theories from a philosophical angle, taking into account the fact that the notion of a spontaneously broken local gauge symmetry, though widely employed in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Simon Friederich

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is an essential feature of modern science. We demonstrate that it also plays an important role in the physics of complex plasmas. Complex plasmas can serve as a powerful tool for observing and studying discrete…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 Sergey K. Zhdanov , Markus H. Thoma , Gregor E. Morfill

We extend to larger unification groups an earlier study exploring the possibility of unification of gauge symmetries in theories with dynamical symmetry breaking. Based on our results, we comment on the outlook for models that seek to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ning Chen , Robert Shrock

In gravity, breaking symmetry from a group G to a group H plays the role of describing geometry in relation to the geometry the homogeneous space G/H. The deep reason for this is Cartan's "method of equivalence," giving, in particular, an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Derek K. Wise

In this article we study the symmetry breaking phenomenon of solutions of noncooperative elliptic systems. We apply the degree for G-invariant strongly indefinite functionals to obtain simultaneously a symmetry breaking and a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Piotr Stefaniak

If Nature is supersymmetric at the weak interaction scale, what can we hope to learn from experiments on supersymmetric particles? The most mysterious aspect of phenomenological supersymmetry is the mechanism of spontaneous supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael E. Peskin

The established results concerning the BRS cohomology of supersymmetric theories in four space-time dimensions are briefly reviewed. The current status of knowledge concerning supersymmetry anomalies and the possibility that supersymmetry…

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

The issue of symmetry and symmetry breaking is fundamental in all areas of science. Symmetry is often assimilated to order and beauty while symmetry breaking is the source of many interesting phenomena such as phase transitions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Michael Loss , Maria Esteban

The Higgs mechanism of mass generation is the main ingredient in the contemporary Standard Model and its various generalizations. However, there is no comprehensive theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking. We summarize the relevant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 G. Sardanashvily

A systematic procedure is developed for constructing fermion systems in discrete space-time which have a given outer symmetry. The construction is illustrated by simple examples. For the symmetric group, we derive constraints for the number…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster

The concept of (global) gauge symmetry breaking plays an important role in many areas of physics. Since the corresponding symmetry is a gauge symmetry, its breaking is actually gauge-dependent. Thus, it is possible to design gauges which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 Axel Maas

Dynamical Symmetry Breaking (DSB) is a concept theorists rely on very often in the discussions of strong dynamics, model building, and hierarchy problems. In this talk, I will discuss why this is such a permeating concept among theorists…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hitoshi Murayama