scholarly journals Topological insulators in three dimensions from spontaneous symmetry breaking

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Ying Ran ◽  
Ashvin Vishwanath
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Topological Insulators ◽  
Three Dimensions

Spontaneous symmetry breaking of dislocation core in SrTiO3

2021 ◽  
pp. 100453
Author(s):  
Hetian Chen ◽  
Di Yi ◽  
Ben Xu ◽  
Jing Ma ◽  
Cewen Nan
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Dislocation Core

scholarly journals Crystal symmetry breaking in few-quintuple Bi2Te3 films: Applications in nanometrology of topological insulators

2010 ◽  
Vol 96 (15) ◽  
pp. 153103 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. F. Shahil ◽  
M. Z. Hossain ◽  
D. Teweldebrhan ◽  
A. A. Balandin
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Topological Insulators ◽  
Crystal Symmetry

scholarly journals Tachyons and Solitons in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Frame of Field Theory

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1358
Author(s):  
Yiannis Contoyiannis ◽  
Michael P. Hanias ◽  
Pericles Papadopoulos ◽  
Stavros G. Stavrinides ◽  
Myron Kampitakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Universality Class ◽  
Lattice Simulation ◽  
Ginzburg Landau ◽  
Spin Lattice ◽  
Nuclear Collisions ◽  
Ising Spin ◽  
Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

This paper presents our study of the presence of the unstable critical point in spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in the framework of Ginzburg–Landau (G-L) free energy. Through a 3D Ising spin lattice simulation, we found a zone of hysteresis where the unstable critical point continued to exist, despite the system having entered the broken symmetry phase. Within the hysteresis zone, the presence of the kink–antikink SSB solitons expands and, therefore, these can be observed. In scalar field theories, such as Higgs fields, the mass of this soliton inside the hysteresis zone could behave as a tachyon mass, namely as an imaginary quantity. Due to the fact that groups Ζ(2) and SU(2) belong to the same universality class, one expects that, in future experiments of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions, in addition to the expected bosons condensations, structures of tachyon fields could appear.

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