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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in polar fluids [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSpontaneous symmetry breaking and emergent polar order are each of fundamental importance to a range of scientific disciplines, as well as generating rich phase behaviour in liquid crystals (LCs). Here, we show the union of these phenomena to lead to two
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An introduction to spontaneous symmetry breaking [PDF]
SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, 2019 Perhaps the most important aspect of symmetry in physics is the idea that a state does not need to have the same symmetries as the theory that describes it. This phenomenon is known as spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Aron J. Beekman, Louk Rademaker, Jasper van Wezel
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking of dissipative optical solitons in a two-component Kerr resonator [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Dissipative solitons and their symmetry breaking is important for photonic applications. Here the authors show that dissipative solitons can undergo spontaneous symmetry breaking in a two-component nonlinear optical ring resonator, resulting in the ...
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking on surface defects [PDF]
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 Coleman’s theorem states that continuous internal symmetries cannot be spontaneously broken in two-dimensional quantum field theories (QFTs). In this work we consider surface (i.e. two-dimensional) defects in d-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs)
Gabriel Cuomo, Shuyu Zhang
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in tensor theories [PDF]
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 In this work we study spontaneous symmetry breaking patterns in tensor models. We focus on the patterns which lead to effective matrix theories transforming in the adjoint of U(N).
P. Diaz, J. A. Rosabal
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The spontaneous symmetry breaking in Ta2NiSe5 is structural in nature. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance In the quest for collective phases of matter that can lead to novel quantum properties, a long-sought example is the excitonic insulator—an exotic state where excitons spontaneously form in thermodynamic equilibrium and undergo Bose–Einstein
Baldini E +19 more
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Ultrafast imaging of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a photoionized molecular system. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 The Jahn-Teller effect is an essential mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in molecular and solid state systems, and has far-reaching consequences in many fields.
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Holographic entanglement density for spontaneous symmetry breaking [PDF]
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 We investigate the properties of the holographic entanglement entropy of the systems in which the U(1) or the translational symmetry is broken spontaneously.
Hyun-Sik Jeong +2 more
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Theoretical and mathematical physics, 2021 has a local maximum rather than a minimum at phase-symmetric point Φ = 0. Instead, it has a continuous ring of degenerate minima at Φ = v × any phase.
Franco Strocchi
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Nonequilibrium dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking into a hidden state of charge-density wave. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Nonequilibrium phase transitions play a pivotal role in broad physical contexts, from condensed matter to cosmology. Tracking the formation of nonequilibrium phases in condensed matter requires a resolution of the long-range cooperativity on ultra-short ...
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