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A two species particle model on an open chain with dynamics which is non-conserving in the bulk is introduced. The dynamical rules which define the model obey a symmetry between the two species. The model exhibits a rich behavior which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Levine , R. D. Willmann

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a general principle, that constitutes the underlying concept of a vast number of physical phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism and superconductivity in condensed matter physics to the Higgs mechanism in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Tomas Brauner

A simplified Randall-Sundrum-like model in 6 dimensions is discussed. The extra two dimensions correspond to the cone. The effective four-dimensional scalar self-interacting theory is studied at one-loop level. The contributions due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 John Quiroga H

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a fundamental notion in modern physics, ranging from high energy to condensed matter. However, the usual spontaneous symmetry breaking only considers the equal probability to select the vacua. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Tian-Chi Ma , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

Here we first present an alternative formulation of the Lewis & Riesenfeld theorem for solving the Schr\"odinger equation with nonautonomous Hermitian and pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We then employ this framework to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 L. F. Alves da Silva , M. H. Y. Moussa

We investigate the occurrence of a phase transition, characterized by the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry, in a driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard lattice in presence of two-photon coherent driving. The driving term does not lift…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Vincenzo Savona

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a key concept in physics that for decades has played a crucial role in the description of many physical phenomena in a large number of different areas, like particle physics, cosmology, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Smits , H. T. C. Stoof , P. van der Straten

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.…

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum field theories with fermionic order parameters and construct, for the first time in the literature, the constraint effective potential for it. The Grassmann-valued constraint we encounter is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-18 Gergely Endrődi , Tamás G. Kovács , Gergely Markó , Laurin Pannullo

Coleman's theorem states that continuous internal symmetries cannot be spontaneously broken in two-dimensional quantum field theories (QFTs). In this work we consider surface (i.e. two-dimensional) defects in $d$-dimensional conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Gabriel Cuomo , Shuyu Zhang

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the underlying laws of a physical system are symmetric, but the vacuum state chosen by the system is not. The (3+1)d $\phi^4$ theory is relatively simple compared to other more complex theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-24 Chen-Te Ma , Yiwen Pan , Hui Zhang

Unfortunately, the Hamiltonian mechanics of degenerate Lagrangian systems is usually presented as a mere recipe of Dirac, with no explanation as to how it works. Then it comes to discussing conjectures of whether all primary constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-20 Alexey Golovnev

We consider spontaneous symmetry breaking transitions of strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions minimally coupled to mass and emergent gauge field order parameters. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-20 Elliot Christou , Fernado de Juan , Frank Krüger

We show that metamaterials can be used as a testing ground to investigate spontaneous symmetry breaking associated with non-Hermitian quantum systems. By exploring the interplay between near-field dipolar coupling and material absorption or…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ming Kang , Fu Liu , Jensen Li

Creation and manipulation of non-classical states of light is rapidly becoming the focus of modern attosecond science. Here, we demonstrate numerically how interaction with such states can trigger the emergence of a many-body system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Nikolai D. Klimkin , Misha Ivanov

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in a system when its Hamiltonian possesses a certain symmetry, whereas the ground state wave functions do not preserve it. This provides such a scenario that a bifurcation, which breaks the symmetry,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jian-Hui Zhao , Hong-Lei Wang , Bo Li , Huan-Qiang Zhou

Reduction from a higher-dimensional to a lower-dimensional field theory can display special features when the zero-level ground state has nontrivial dependence on the reduction coordinates. In particular, a delayed `covert' form of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 C. W. Erickson , A. D. Harrold , Rahim Leung , K. S. Stelle

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking in phase transitions occurs when the system Hamiltonian is symmetric under a certain transformation, but the equilibrium states observed in nature are not. Here, we prove that when a discrete symmetry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

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

In this paper we discuss a disordered $d$-dimensional Euclidean $\lambda\varphi^{4}$ model. The dominant contribution to the average free energy of this system is written as a series of the replica partition functions of the model. In each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 R. Acosta Diaz , G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter , C. A. D. Zarro