| Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Malomed, Boris A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642212069 ISBN-13: 9783642212062 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Microwaves - Technology & Engineering | Optics - Science | Physics - Optics & Light |
| Dewey: 539.725 |
| Series: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (2.50 lbs) 707 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
