Symmetry Breaking
This new edition of Prof. Strocchi's well received primer on rigorous aspects of symmetry breaking presents a more detailed and thorough discussion of the mechanism of symmetry breaking in classical field theory in relation with the Noether theorem. Moreover, the link between symmetry breaking...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Physics,
732 |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Symmetry Breaking in Classical Systems
- Symmetries of a Classical System
- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
- Symmetries in Classical Field Theory
- General Properties of Solutions of Classical Field Equations
- Stable Structures, Hilbert Sectors, Phases
- Stability under Space Translations. Positive Energy
- Noether Theorem and Symmetry Breaking
- Examples
- The Goldstone Theorem
- Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Systems
- Quantum Mechanics. Algebraic Structure and States
- Fock Representation
- Non-Fock Representations
- Mathematical Description of Infinitely Extended Quantum Systems
- Physically Relevant Representations
- Cluster Property and Pure Phases
- Examples
- Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Systems
- Examples
- Constructive Symmetry Breaking
- Symmetry Breaking in the Ising Model
- Thermal States
- Fermi and Bose Gas at Non-zero Temperature
- Quantum Fields at Non-zero Temperature
- Breaking of Continuous Symmetries. Goldstone’s Theorem
- The Goldstone Theorem at Non-zero Temperature
- The Goldstone Theorem for Relativistic Local Fields
- An Extension of Goldstone Theorem to Non-symmetric Hamiltonians
- Symmetry Breaking in Gauge Theories
- Erratum
- Erratum.
