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Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is key for our understanding of phase transitions and the spontaneous emergence of order. Photonics provide versatile systems to study SSB. In this work, we report that for a two-dimensional (2D) periodic…

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

We investigate the nature of quantum entanglement in long-range orders and spontaneous symmetry breaking. It is shown that diminishing of entanglement between the condensate mode and the rest of the system underlies off-diagonal long-range…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu Shi

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

Topologically-ordered phases of matter at non-zero temperature are conjectured to exhibit universal patterns of long-range entanglement which may be detected by a mixed-state entanglement measure known as entanglement negativity. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Tsung-Cheng Lu , Sagar Vijay

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is an important phenomenon observed in various fields including physics and biology. In this connection, we here show that the trade-off between attractive and repulsive couplings can induce spontaneous…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-12 K. Sathiyadevi , S. Karthiga , V. K. Chandrasekar , D. V. Senthilkumar , M. Lakshmanan

We develop a general framework for studying phases of mixed states with strong and weak symmetries, including non-invertible or categorical symmetries. The central idea is to consider a purification of the mixed state density matrix, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman , Carolyn Zhang

Quantum measurements performed on a subsystem of a quantum many-body state can generate entanglement for its remaining constituents. The whole system including the measurement record is described by a hybrid mixed state, which can exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Qingyuan Wang , Romain Vasseur , Simon Trebst , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Guo-Yi Zhu

We present a family of local quantum channels whose steady-states exhibit stable mixed-state symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order. Motivated by recent experimental progress on "erasure conversion" techniques that allow one to identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Sanket Chirame , Fiona J. Burnell , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Abhinav Prem

Anticoherent spin states have isotropic low-order spin moments and are relevant to direction-independent metrology and quantum reference-frame alignment. In contrast to pure states, for mixed states such isotropy may originate either from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jérôme Denis , Tara Lacaille , John Martin , Eduardo Serrano-Ensástiga

We introduce a class of intrinsic symmetry-protected topological mixed-state(mSPT) in open quantum systems that feature modulated symmetries, such as dipole and subsystem symmetries. Intriguingly, these mSPT phases cannot be realized as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Yizhi You , Masaki Oshikawa

A brief introduction to the topic of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in conservative and dissipative nonlinear systems with an underlying double-well-potential structure is given. The reason is a discussion of a recent observation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-30 Boris A. Malomed

Under decoherence, an initial Gaussian (free-fermion) state evolves into a non-Gaussian mixed state, so the resulting decohered fermionic state is not exactly solvable in general. We show through an inequality that a class of R\'{e}nyi-2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Abhijat Sarma , Cenke Xu

Complexity in strongly correlated electron systems is analyzed by considering decoherence process between the localized state, |L> and the itinerant state, |I>. The coherent superposition state of a|I> + b|L> decoheres to the pointer states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-04 Byung Gyu Chae

The dephasing influence of a dissipative environment reduces linear superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states (sometimes also called Schr\"odinger cat states) usually almost immediately to a statistical mixture. This process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Braun , Petr A. Braun , Fritz Haake

Symmetry-breaking transitions are a well-understood phenomenon of closed quantum systems in quantum optics, condensed matter, and high energy physics. However, symmetry breaking in open systems is less thoroughly understood, in part due to…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in statistical physics is a macroscopic collective phenomenon. For the paradigmatic Q-state Potts model it means a transition from the disordered color-symmetric phase to an ordered phase in which one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Hai-Jun Zhou

We extend the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) framework to open quantum systems. Using canonical purification, we embed mixed states into a doubled (2+1)-dimensional topological order and employ the slab construction to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ran Luo , Yi-Nan Wang , Zhen Bi

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.…

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