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Spontaneous symmetry breaking is related to the appearance of emergent phenomena, while a non-vanishing order parameter has been viewed as the sign of turning into such symmetry breaking phase. Recently, we have proposed a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 G. H. Dong , Y. N. Fang , C. P. Sun

Symmetries are intrinsic to many combinatorial problems including Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Constraint Programming (CP). In SAT, the identification of symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) is a well-known, often effective, technique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joao Marques-Silva , Ines Lynce , Vasco Manquinho

Incorporating symmetry as an inductive bias into neural network architecture has led to improvements in generalization, data efficiency, and physical consistency in dynamics modeling. Methods such as CNNs or equivariant neural networks use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

We propose a new technique for consistent estimation of the number and locations of the change-points in the structure of an irregularly spaced time series. The core of the segmentation procedure is the Ensemble Binary Segmentation method…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-24 Karolos K. Korkas

The paper combines two topics belonging to the general theme of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in systems including two basic competing ingredients: the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity and a double-well-potential (DWP) structure.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-30 Boris A. Malomed

The concept of symmetry breaking and the emergence of corresponding local order parameters constitute the pillars of modern day many body physics. The theory of quantum entanglement is currently leading to a paradigm shift in understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 V. Zauner , D. Draxler , L. Vanderstraeten , J. Haegeman , F. Verstraete

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and exceptional points (EPs) are often assumed to be inherently linked. Here we investigate the intricate relationship between SSB and specific classes of EPs across three distinct, real-world scenarios…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is the cornerstone of our understanding of quantum phases of matter. Recent works have generalized this concept to the domain of mixed states in open quantum systems, where symmetries can be realized in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xiaozhou Feng , Zihan Cheng , Matteo Ippoliti

Beginning with Anderson (1972), spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in infinite quantum systems is often put forward as an example of (asymptotic) emergence in physics, since in theory no finite system should display it. Even the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 N. P. Landsman

Symmetry breaking for graphs and other combinatorial objects is notoriously hard. On the one hand, complete symmetry breaks are exponential in size. On the other hand, current, state-of-the-art, partial symmetry breaks are often considered…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Michael Codish , Mikoláš Janota

Spherical equivariant graph neural networks (EGNNs) provide a principled framework for learning on three-dimensional molecular and biomolecular systems, where predictions must respect the rotational symmetries inherent in physics. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sophia Tang

An antithetical concept, adaptive symmetry, to conservative symmetry in physics is proposed to understand the deep neural networks (DNNs). It characterizes the invariance of variance, where a biotic system explores different pathways of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shawn W. M. Li

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in statistical mechanics primarily occurs during phase transitions at the thermodynamic limit where the Hamiltonian preserves inversion symmetry, yet the low-temperature free energy exhibits reduced symmetry.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shalom Rosner , Ronit D. Gross , Ella Koresh , Ido Kanter

In this work, we introduce the Equivariance Seeker Model (ESM), a data-driven method for discovering the underlying finite equivariant symmetry group of an arbitrary function. ESM achieves this by optimizing a loss function that balances…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Pablo Calvo-Barlés , Sergio G. Rodrigo , Luis Martín-Moreno

We propose a model of a nonlinear double-well potential (NDWP), alias a double-well pseudopotential, with the objective to study an alternative implementation of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed , Guangjiong Dong

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

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

Equivariant neural networks incorporate symmetries into their architecture, achieving higher generalization performance. However, constructing equivariant neural networks typically requires prior knowledge of data types and symmetries,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lexiang Hu , Yikang Li , Zhouchen Lin

Machine-learning (ML) force fields enable large-scale simulations with near-first-principles accuracy at substantially reduced computational cost. Recent work has extended ML force-field approaches to adiabatic dynamical simulations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-08 Yunhao Fan , Gia-Wei Chern

Most natural thermodynamic systems operate far from equilibrium, developing persistent currents and organizing into non-equilibrium stationary states (NESSs). Yet, the principles by which such systems self-organize, breaking equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-11 Matteo Sireci , Luca Peliti , Daniel Maria Busiello