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We consider the self-evolution of strongly non-equilibrium interacting Bose gas. Due to the mere fact of large (as compared to unity) occupation numbers in the initial state the problem is directly reduced to the question of temporal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu. Kagan , B. V. Svistunov

The possibility of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in momentum space in a generic Lifshitz scalar model - a non-relativistic scalar field theory with higher spatial derivative terms - has been studied. We show that the minimum energy state,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-04 Subir Ghosh

In an electronic system, spontaneous symmetry breaking can arise from many-body interaction between electrons, leading to degenerate ground states distinguishable by emergent effects otherwise prohibited by the symmetry. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Zuzhang Lin , Hsun-Chi Chan , Wenqi Yang , Yixin Sha , Cong Xiao , Shuang Zhang , Wang Yao

In a physical system undergoing a continuous quantum phase transition, spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when certain symmetries of the Hamiltonian fail to be preserved in the ground state. In the traditional Landau theory, a symmetry…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Marcel Bischoff , Corey Jones , Yuan-Ming Lu , David Penneys

Landau's spontaneous symmetry breaking theory is a fundamental theory that describes the collective behaviors in many-body systems. It was well known that for usual spontaneous symmetry breaking in Hermitian systems, the order-disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-22 Meng-Lei Yang , Heng Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Xiao-Ran Wang , Gaoyong Sun , Su-Peng Kou

The large scale behavior of systems having a large number of interacting degrees of freedom is suitably described using renormalization group, from non-Gaussian distributions. Renormalization group techniques used in physics are then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-04 Vincent Lahoche , Dine Ousmane Samary , Mohamed Tamaazousti

Low-energy remnant fundamental symmetry violations may be present in nature at levels attainable in upcoming experiments. These effects may arise through spontaneous symmetry breaking in a more complete Lorentz covariant theory underlying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Don Colladay

Topological concepts have been employed to understand the ground states of many strongly correlated systems, but it is still quite unclear if and how topology manifests itself in the relaxation dynamics. Here we uncover emergent topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-31 Wang Huang , Xu-Chen Yang , Rui Cao , Ying-Hai Wu , Jianmin Yuan , Yongqiang Li

In one-dimensional systems, spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) states are fragile by nature, as the injection of a non-zero energy density above the ground state is expected to restore the symmetry. This instability implies that local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-18 Florent Ferro

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

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

Frustrated magnets can elude the paradigm of conventional symmetry breaking and instead exhibit signatures of emergent symmetries at low temperatures. Such symmetries arise from "accidental" degeneracies within the ground state manifold and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Sagar Ramchandani , Simon Trebst , Ciarán Hickey

We show, via explicit computation on a constrained bosonic model, that the presence of subsystem symmetries can lead to a quantum phase transition (QPT) where the critical point exhibits an emergent enhanced symmetry. Such a transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Anirudha Menon , Anwesha Chattopadhyay , K. Sengupta , Arnab Sen

Quantum circuits consisting of random unitary gates and subject to local measurements have been shown to undergo a phase transition, tuned by the rate of measurement, from a state with volume-law entanglement to an area-law state. From a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

$\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry is ubiquitous in quantum mechanics where it drives various phase transitions and emergent physics. The role of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in the thermalization of a local observable in a disordered system can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Adway Kumar Das

We study how conservation laws shape the spreading of quantum coherence in many-body dynamics. Focusing on $U(1)$-symmetric random circuits, charge-and-dipole conserving circuits, as well as ergodic Hamiltonian dynamics, we probe coherences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Sreemayee Aditya , Emanuele Tirrito , Piotr Sierant , Xhek Turkeshi

We establish a general scaling law for the entanglement of a large class of ground states and dynamically evolving states of quantum spin chains: we show that the geometric entropy of a distinguished block saturates, and hence follows an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jens Eisert , Tobias J. Osborne

Recently we have described a mechanical system which exhibits spontaneous breaking of Z_2 symmetry and related topological kinks called compactons. The corresponding field potential is not differentiable at its global minima. Therefore,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Arodz

In the area of topological and geometric treatment of phase transitions and symmetry breaking in Hamiltonian systems, in a recent paper some general sufficient conditions for these phenomena in $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric systems (i.e.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-07 Fabrizio Baroni

We describe explicitly how entanglement between quantum mechanical subsystems can lead to emergent gauge symmetry in a classical limit. We first provide a precise characterisation of when it is consistent to treat a quantum subsystem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Josh Kirklin