Symmetry Breaking

• Main Author: Strocchi, Franco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 643
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

The intriguing mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking is a powerful innovative idea at the basis of most of the recent developments in theoretical physics, from statistical mechanics to many-body theory to elementary particles theory; for infinitely extended systems a symmetric Hamiltonian can a...