Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations (eBook)

Boris A. Malomed (Herausgeber)

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2014
XVII, 707 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
9783642212079 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
• Reihe/Serie: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 707 p. 340 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Bose-Einstein-Condensation BEC • dual-core systems • Josephson oscillations • nonlinear Hamiltonian • nonlinear optical fibers • Nonlinear Optics • photorefractive media • self-trapping • supercritical symmetry breaking • symmetry breaking bifurcation
• ISBN-13: 9783642212079 / 9783642212079