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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

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

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

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

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

On the global structure of deformed Yang-Mills theory and QCD(adj) on R-3 x S-1

Spatial compactification on R(3)xS(L)(1), at small S-1-size L often leads to a calculable vacuum structure, where various "topological molecules" are responsible for confinement and the realization of the center and discrete chiral symmetries. Within this ...

Springer2015

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

Lagrangian Reductions and Integrable Systems in Condensed Matter

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

We consider a general approach for the process of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian reduction by symmetries in chiral gauge models. This approach is used to show the complete integrability of several one dimensional texture equations arising in liquid Helium phas ...

Springer2015

Observation of correlated spin-orbit order in a strongly anisotropic quantum wire system

Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff

Quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously control the coupling strength and the screened Coulomb interactions where new exotic phases of matter can be explored. Here we report on the observation of an exotic spin ...

Nature Publishing Group2015