scholarly journals Electron Correlation Induced Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Weyl Semimetal Phase in a Strongly Spin–Orbit Coupled System

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 033702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akihiko Sekine ◽  
Kentaro Nomura
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electron Correlation ◽  
Coupled System ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Weyl Semimetal

Revealing the nature of electron correlation in transition metal complexes with symmetry breaking and chemical intuition

2021 ◽  
Vol 154 (19) ◽  
pp. 194109
Author(s):  
James Shee ◽  
Matthias Loipersberger ◽  
Diptarka Hait ◽  
Joonho Lee ◽  
Martin Head-Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Transition Metal ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Metal Complexes ◽  
Transition Metal Complexes ◽  
Electron Correlation

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 Low-Energy Optical Conductivity of TaP: Comparison of Theory and Experiment

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Alexander Yaresko ◽  
Artem V. Pronin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Optical Conductivity ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Natural Explanation ◽  
Weyl Semimetal ◽  
Unintentional Doping ◽  
Mott Formula ◽  
Theory And Experiment

The ab-plane optical conductivity of the Weyl semimetal TaP is calculated from the band structure and compared to the experimental data. The overall agreement between theory and experiment is found to be best when the Fermi level is slightly (20 to 60 meV) shifted upwards in the calculations. This confirms a small unintentional doping of TaP, reported earlier, and allows a natural explanation of the strong low-energy (50 meV) peak seen in the experimental ab-plane optical conductivity: this peak originates from transitions between the almost parallel non-degenerate electronic bands split by spin-orbit coupling. The temperature evolution of the peak can be reasonably well reproduce by calculations using an analog of the Mott formula.

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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