Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783662520734)

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.

Author: Boris A. Malomed
ISBN-10: 3662520737
ISBN-13: 9783662520734
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2016
Pages: 707
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.45d