Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bori A Malomed (Editor), Boris A Malomed (Editor), Boris A. Malomed (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783662520734
• ISBN: 978-3-662-52073-4
• No. of pages: 707
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 39 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 1084 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 707 p. 340 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Series: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics; Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Laser, B, engineering, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications, Lasers, Solid State Physics, Quantum Optics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Optical physics, Electronic Devices, Spectrum analysis, spectrochemistry, mass spectrometry, Photonics, Applied optics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical engineering, Microwaves, Microwave technology