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Spectral signatures of high-symmetry quantum dots and effects of symmetry breaking

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Marc-André Dupertuis, Daniel Oberli, Valentina Troncale

High symmetry epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) with three or more symmetry planes provide a very promising route for the generation of entangled photons for quantum information applications. The great challenge to fabricate nanoscopic high symmetry QDs is furt ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Zoology of condensed matter: framids, ordinary stuff, extra-ordinary stuff

Riccardo Rattazzi

We classify condensed matter systems in terms of the spacetime symmetries they spontaneously break. In particular, we characterize condensed matter itself as any state in a Poincare-invariant theory that spontaneously breaks Lorentz boosts while preserving ...

Springer2015

Template-Free Wavelet-Based Detection of Local Symmetries

Michaël Unser, Zsuzsanna Püspöki

Our goal is to detect and group different kinds of local symmetries in images in a scale- and rotation-invariant way. We propose an efficient wavelet-based method to determine the order of local symmetry at each location. Our algorithm relies on circular h ...

IEEE2015

Leading effects beyond the standard model

Francesco Riva

Using the predictive power of the effective field theory approach, we present a physical parametrization of the leading effects beyond the standard model (BSM), which gives us at present the best way to constrain heavy new physics at low energies. We show ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Hamiltonian truncation study of the phi(4) theory in two dimensions

Lorenzo Vitale

We defend the Fock-space Hamiltonian truncation method, which allows us to calculate numerically the spectrum of strongly coupled quantum field theories, by putting them in a finite volume and imposing a UV cutoff. The accuracy of the method is improved vi ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Spontaneously broken mass

Solomon G Shamsuddin Osman Endlich

The Galilei group involves mass as a central charge. We show that the associated superselection rule is incompatible with the observed phenomenology of superfluid helium 4: this is recovered only under the assumption that mass is spontaneou.519 broken. Thi ...

Springer2015

Insight into the eigenmodes of plasmonic nanoclusters based on the Green's tensor method

Olivier Martin, Shourya Dutta Gupta

Assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles possess exotic properties that are used in numerous applications. Their efficiency for specific applications strongly depends on the modes supported by the structure. In this paper, we extend the Green's tensor formali ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

Perturbative conformal symmetry and dilaton

Alexander Monin, Frédéric Gretsch

Spontaneous symmetry breaking with necessity leads to the presence of Goldstone field(s). In the case of scale or conformal symmetries the corresponding Goldstone mode is called the dilaton. Consistently coupling a system to the dilaton poses certain diffi ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

On the strong coupling scale in Higgs G-inflation

Kohei Kamada

Higgs G-inflation is an inflation model that takes advantage of a Galileon-like derivative coupling. It is a non-renormalizable operator and is strongly coupled at high energy scales. Perturbative analysis does not have a predictive power any longer there. ...

Elsevier2015

Diamagnetic vortices in Chern-Simons theory

Yannis Burnier, Eray Sabancilar

We find a new type of topological vortex solution in the U(1)(Z) xU(1)(A) Chern-Simons gauge theory in the presence of a U(1)(A) magnetic field background. In this theory U(1)(Z) is broken spontaneously by the U(1)(A) magnetic field. These vortices exhibit ...

Amer Physical Soc2015