Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations

Boris A. Malomed (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 707 Seiten

2013 | 2013
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-21206-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 707 p. 340 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 1205 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
• Schlagworte: Bose-Einstein-Condensation BEC • dual-core systems • Josephson oscillations • nonlinear Hamiltonian • nonlinear optical fibers • Nonlinear Optics • photorefractive media • self-trapping • supercritical symmetry breaking • symmetry breaking bifurcation
• ISBN-10: 3-642-21206-9 / 3642212069
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-21206-2 / 9783642212062
• Zustand: Neuware