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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 simple two-species asymmetric exclusion model in one dimension with bulk and boundary exchanges of particles is investigated for the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The model is a generalization of the bridge model for which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , David Mukamel , Gunter M. Schutz

In physical systems, whenever a continuous symmetry is spontaneously broken, the system possesses excitations called Goldstone modes, which allow coherent information propagation over long distances and times. In this work, we study deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Nabil Iqbal , T. Anderson Keller , Yue Song , Takeru Miyato , Max Welling

The two-dimensional (2D) XY model plays a crucial role in statistical and condensed matter physics. With the introduction of long-range interactions, the system exhibits a richer set of physical phenomena and a crossover between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Dingyun Yao , Tianning Xiao , Chao Zhang , Youjin Deng , Zhijie Fan

We study a system involving a single quantum degree of freedom per site of the lattice interacting with a few neighbors (up to second neighbors), with the interactions chosen as to produce frustration. At zero temperature, this system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-29 Heitor Casasola , Carlos A. Hernaski , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Paula F. Bienzobaz

The dynamics of two active nonlinear resonators coupled to a linear resonator is studied theoretically. Possible stationary states and its dynamical stability are considered in detail. The spontaneous symmetry breaking is found and it is…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

It is shown that the Goldstone modes associated with a broken continuous symmetry lead to anomalously large fluctuations of the zero field order parameter at any temperature below T_c. In dimensions 2<d<4, the variance of the extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Zwerger

Driven-dissipative systems define a broad class of non-equilibrium systems where an external drive (e.g. laser) competes with a dissipative environment. The steady state of dynamics is generically distinct from a thermal state…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Mohammad F. Maghrebi

The phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking is investigated in the dynamic thermalization of a degenerate quantum system. A three-level system interacting with a heat bath is carefully studied to this end. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 Jie-Qiao Liao , H. Dong , X. G. Wang , X. F. Liu , C. P. Sun

Motivated by a recent experiment on a square-lattice Rydberg atom array realizing a long-range dipolar XY model [Chen et al., Nature (2023)], we numerically study the model's equilibrium properties. We obtain the phase diagram, critical…

Recent theoretical studies predict that structural disorder, serving as a bridge connecting a crystalline material to an amorphous material, can induce a topological insulator from a trivial phase. However, to experimentally observe such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-03 Kai Li , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

Spontaneous symmetry breaking provides a powerful window into the nature of underlying electronic orders. In strongly correlated systems, multiple symmetry-breaking orders can arise simultaneously. and their interplay generates an intricate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erin Morissette , Peiyu Qin , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

Continuous time-translation symmetry is often spontaneously broken in open quantum systems, and the condition for their emergence has been actively investigated. However, there are only a few cases in which its condition for appearance has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Yuma Nakanishi , Ryo Hanai , Tomohiro Sasamoto

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is responsible for the rich phenomena in equilibrium physics. Driving a system out-of-equilibrium can significantly enrich the possibility of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which occurs not only in space, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Mingxi Yue , Zi Cai

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

We present a theoretical study of the interaction between an atom characterized by a degenerate ground state and a reciprocal environment, such as a semiconductor nanoparticle, without the presence of external bias. Our analysis reveals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Mário G. Silveirinha , Hugo Terças , Mauro Antezza

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and more recently entanglement are two cornerstones of quantum matter. We introduce the notion of anisotropic entanglement ordered phases, where the spatial profile of spin-pseudospin entanglement spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Nilotpal Chakraborty , Roderich Moessner , Benoit Doucot

We show that baryon number symmetry is spontaneously broken in a class of three-dimensional, ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric theories with a discrete mass spectrum. These models serve as lower-dimensional, less-supersymmetric analogs of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-06 Antón F. Faedo , Carlos Hoyos , Javier G. Subils

Higgs and Goldstone modes manifest as fluctuations in the order parameter of system, offering insights into its phase transitions and symmetry properties. Exploring the dynamics of these collective excitations in a Rydberg atoms system…