Overview
- Give an overview on the major break throughs of recent years
- Relevant for Bose-Einstein-condensates and photorefractive media in optics
- Presents theoretical and experimental break throughs
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics (POSP, volume 1)
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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.
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations
Editors: Boris A. Malomed
Series Title: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21207-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-21206-2Published: 12 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52073-4Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-21207-9Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2363-5096
Series E-ISSN: 2363-510X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 707
Number of Illustrations: 339 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Optics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Solid State Physics