Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations
Author | : Boris A. Malomed |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783642212079 |
ISBN-13 | : 3642212077 |
Rating | : 4/5 (077 Downloads) |
Download or read book Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations written by Boris A. Malomed and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.