Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations PDF
Edited by Boris A. Malomed
Part of the Progress in Optical Science and Photonics series
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This volume collects a a number of contributions on spontaneous symmetry breaking. Current studies in this general field are going ahead at a full speed. The book present review chapters which give an overview on the major break throughs of recent years. It covers a number of different physical settings which are introduced when a nonlinearity is added to the underlying symmetric problems and its strength exceeds a certain critical value. The corresponding loss of symmetry, called spontaneous symmetry breaking, alias self-trapping into asymmetric states is extensively discussed in this book.
The book presents both active theoretical studies of spontaneous symmetry breaking effects as well as experimental findings, chiefly for Bose-Einstein-Condensates with the self-repulsive nonlinearity, and also for photorefractive media in optics.
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:08/07/2014
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:08/07/2014
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- ISBN:9783642212079
