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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 study a system of two hardcore bosonic Hubbard models weakly coupled with each other by tunneling. Assuming that the single uncoupled model exhibits off-diagonal long-range order, we prove that the coupled system exhibits spontaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hal Tasaki

Supersymmetry plays a main role in all current thinking about superstring theory. Indeed, many remarkable properties of string theory have been explained using supersymmetry as a tool. So far, there has been no unbroken supersymmetry…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Ahmed Ayad

Generalized symmetries have emerged as a powerful organizing principle for exotic quantum phases. However, their role in open quantum systems, especially for non-invertible cases, remains largely unexplored. We address this by applying a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Xiao-Qi Sun

In this work we present some new understanding of topological order, including three main aspects: (1) It was believed that classifying topological orders corresponds to classifying gapped quantum states. We show that such a statement is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Bei Zeng , Xiao-Gang Wen

We propose a fundamental setup for the realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and spontaneous antisymmetry breaking (SASB) in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the self-attractive and repulsive cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-15 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed , T. J. Taiwo

We show that the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) construction, also known as the topological holography, provides a natural and intuitive framework for the entropic order parameter characterising phases with (partially) broken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Hua-Chen Zhang , Germán Sierra , Javier Molina-Vilaplana

Utilizing the framework of matrix product states, we investigate gauging as a method for exploring quantum phases of matter. Specifically, we describe how symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases and spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 David Blanik , José Garre-Rubio , Norbert Schuch

We examine the behavior of the entanglement asymmetry in the ground state of a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory with a boundary condition that explicitly breaks a bulk symmetry. Our focus is on the asymmetry of a subsystem $A$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Michele Fossati , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

Spontaneous symmetry breaking underlies much of our classification of phases of matter and their associated transitions. The nature of the underlying symmetry being broken determines many of the qualitative properties of the phase; this is…

A generic scheme is proposed to investigate the entanglement entropy for a type of scale-invariant states, valid for orthonormal basis states in the ground state subspace of quantum many-body systems undergoing spontaneous symmetry breaking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

A one-dimensional driven two-species model with parallel sublattice update and open boundaries is considered. Although the microscopic many-body dynamics is symmetric with respect to the two species and interactions are short-ranged, there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-27 Richard D. Willmann , Gunter M. Schuetz , Stefan Grosskinsky

The one-dimensional spin-$s$ ${\rm SU}(2)$ ferromagnetic Heisenberg model, as a paradigmatic example for spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) with type-B Goldstone modes (GMs), is expected to exhibit an abstract fractal underlying the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , John O. Fjærestad , Ian P. McCulloch

A charged entanglement entropy is a new measure which probes quantum entanglement between different charge sectors. We study symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in 2+1 dimensional space-time by using this charged entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Shunji Matsuura , Xueda Wen , Ling-Yan Hung , Shinsei Ryu

We propose an ordered set of experimentally accessible conditions for detecting entanglement in mixed states. The $k$-th condition involves comparing moments of the partially transposed density operator up to order $k$. Remarkably, the…

A cornerstone of the theory of phase transitions is the observation that many-body systems exhibiting a spontaneous symmetry breaking in the thermodynamic limit generally show extensive fluctuations of an order parameter in large but finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 H. Wilming , M. J. Kastoryano , A. H. Werner , J. Eisert

Why does spontaneous symmetry breaking occur? Why is a state breaking symmetry realized? We explore an idea that measurement selects such a state even if a system is given in a state respecting the symmetry of the system. We point out that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Takaaki Monnai , Mauro Iazzi , Kazuya Yuasa

We study the entanglement structure, i.e., the structure of quantum composite system from operational aspects. The structure is not uniquely determined in General Probabilistic Theories (GPTs) even if we impose reasonable postulate about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Hayato Arai , Masahito Hayashi

Particle systems admit a variety of tensor product structures (TPSs) depending on the algebra of observables chosen for analysis. Global symmetry transformations and dynamical transformations may be resolved into local unitary operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. L. Harshman , S. Wickramasekara

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