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Subsystem symmetry protected topological (SSPT) order is a type of quantum order that is protected by symmetries acting on lower-dimensional subsystems of the entire system. In this paper, we show how SSPT order can be characterized and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-06 David T. Stephen , Henrik Dreyer , Mohsin Iqbal , Norbert Schuch

In this paper, we explore the interplay between symmetry and fracton order, motivated by the analogous close relationship for topologically ordered systems. Specifically, we consider models with 3D planar subsystem symmetry, and show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 Yizhi You , Trithep Devakul , F. J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

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

The concept of symmetry breaking has been a propelling force in understanding phases of matter. While rotational symmetry breaking is one of the most prevalent examples, the rich landscape of orientational orders breaking the rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-24 Jaakko Nissinen , Ke Liu , Robert-Jan Slager , Kai Wu , Jan Zaanen

Spontaneous synchronization has long served as a paradigm for behavioral uniformity that can emerge from interactions in complex systems. When the interacting entities are identical and their coupling patterns are also identical, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a cornerstone of modern physics, defining a wealth of phenomena in condensed-matter and high-energy physics, and beyond. It requires an infinite number of degrees of freedom, and even then, for continuous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-10 Oleg Evnin

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

Entanglement asymmetry is an observable in quantum systems, constructed using quantum-information methods, suited to detecting symmetry breaking in states -- possibly out of equilibrium -- relative to a subsystem. In this paper we define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Francesco Benini , Pasquale Calabrese , Michele Fossati , Amartya Harsh Singh , Marco Venuti

We present a clear and mathematically simple procedure explaining spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum mechanical systems. The procedure is applicable to a wide range of models and can be easily used to explain the existence of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

We discuss the symmetry-protected topological (SPT) orders for bosonic systems from an information-theoretic viewpoint. We show that with a proper choice of the onsite basis, the degenerate ground-state space of SPT orders (on a manifold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Bei Zeng , Duan-Lu Zhou

Symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy provides a powerful framework for probing the internal structure of quantum many-body states by decomposing entanglement into contributions from distinct symmetry sectors. In this work, we apply matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Mark J. Arildsen , Valentin Crépel , Nicolas Regnault , Benoit Estienne

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

Particle systems admit a variety of tensor product structures (TPSs) depending on the complete system of commuting observables chosen for the analysis. Different notions of entanglement are associated with these different TPSs. Global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 N. L. Harshman , S. Wickramsekara

The theory of entanglement provides a fundamentally new language for describing interactions and correlations in many body systems. Its vocabulary consists of qubits and entangled pairs, and the syntax is provided by tensor networks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ignacio Cirac , David Perez-Garcia , Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

High temperature is usually expected to destroy order: as the Gibbs state approaches the infinite-temperature limit, it becomes an equal-weight ensemble over all states and the system is generically disordered. Recent works showed that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Po-Shen Hsin , Ryohei Kobayashi

The usual condensed matter lattice theories do not include dynamical electromagnetic (EM) field and do not have higher symmetries naturally (unless we engineer fine-tuned toy models to realize higher symmetries). However, for gapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Xiao-Gang Wen

Pseudoentangled states are defined by their ability to hide their entanglement structure: they are indistinguishable from random states to any observer with polynomial resources, yet can have much less entanglement than random states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Zihan Cheng , Xiaozhou Feng , Matteo Ippoliti

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is well understood through the classical "Mexican Hat" picture, which describes many quantum phases of matter. Recently, several new classes of quantum phases of matter, such as topological orders and symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-01 Fangzhou Liu , Xiao-Gang Wen

We discuss the cases where local decoherence selectively degrades one type of entanglement more than other types. A typical case is called state ordering change, in which two input states with different amounts of entanglement undergoes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yuma Kinoshita , Ryo Namiki , Takashi Yamamoto , Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

A symmetry-protected topologically ordered phase is a short-range entangled state, for which some imposed symmetry prohibits the adiabatic deformation into a trivial state which lacks entanglement. In this paper we argue that magnetization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-24 Shintaro Takayoshi , Keisuke Totsuka , Akihiro Tanaka