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The clogging behavior of a symmetric binary mixture of particles that are driven in opposite directions through constrictions is explored by Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. A dynamical state with a spontaneously broken symmetry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Tobias Glanz , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We consider two coupled particles moving along a periodic substrate potential with negligible inertia effects (overdamped limit). Even when the particles are identical and the substrate spatially symmetric, a sinusoidal external driving of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-04 David Speer , Ralf Eichhorn , Mykhaylo Evstigneev , Peter Reimann

We demonstrate that a system of self-propelled particles (SPP) exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking and self-organization in one dimension, in contrast with previous analytical predictions. To explain this surprising result we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andras Czirok , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Tamas Vicsek

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 present spontaneous symmetry breaking in a nanoscale version of a setup prolific in classical mechanics: two coupled nanomechanical pendulums. The two pendulums are electron shuttles fabricated as nanopillars and placed between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chulki Kim , Jonghoo Park , Robert H. Blick

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

Spontaneous symmetry breaking has revolutionized the understanding in numerous fields of modern physics. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

In this article we briefly review recent experimental and theoretical work on quantum Hall effect in graphene, and argue that some of the quantum Hall states exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking that is driven by electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Kun Yang

In this work we investigate symmetry breaking in the presence of a turbulent environment. The transition from a symmetric state to a symmetry-breaking state is demonstrated using two examples: (i) the transition of a two-dimensional flow to…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the symmetry that a physical system possesses, is not preserved for the ground state of the system. Although the procedure of symmetry breaking is quite clear from the mathematical point of view,…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Acus

We present a clear and mathematically simple procedure explaining spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum mechanical systems. The procedure is applicable to a wide range of models and can be easily used to explain the existence of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

Particle currents flowing against an external driving are a fascinating phenomenon in both single-particle and interacting many-particle systems. Underlying physical mechanisms of such current reversals are not fully understood yet.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Moritz Wolf , Sören Schweers , Philipp Maass

The interaction between two chemically identical charge-regulated surfaces is studied using the classical density functional theory. In contrast to common expectations and assumptions, under certain realistic conditions we find a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-26 Arghya Majee , Markus Bier , Rudolf Podgornik

We consider a driven diffusive system with two types of particles, A and B, coupled at the ends to reservoirs with fixed particle densities. To define stochastic dynamics that correspond to boundary reservoirs we introduce projection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-13 Vladislav Popkov , Gunter M. Schuetz

The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking in many-body systems, the wavelike nature of quantum particles and lattice effects produces an extraordinary behavior of the chiral current of bosonic particles in the presence of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-20 S. Greschner , M. Piraud , F. Heidrich-Meisner , I. P. McCulloch , U. Schollwöck , T. Vekua

Propulsion of otherwise passive objects is achieved by mechanisms of active driving. We concentrate on cases in which the direction of active drive is subject to spontaneous symmetry breaking. In our case, this direction will be maintained,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Andreas M. Menzel

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

A nonperturbative approach for spontaneous symmetry breaking is proposed. It is based on some properties of interacting field operators. As the consequences an additional terms like to m^2 A^2 appears in the initial Lagrangian.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

Sudden destabilisations of the magnetic field, such as those caused by spontaneous reconnection, will produce waves and/or flows. Here, we investigate the nature of the plasma motions resulting from spontaneous reconnection at a 3D…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Julie E. H. Stevenson , Clare E. Parnell

Multi-particle non-equilibrium dynamics in two-channel asymmetric exclusion processes with narrow entrances is investigated theoretically. Particles move on two parallel lattices in opposite directions without changing them, while the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ekaterina Pronina , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
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