عنوان

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations

(Number (ISBN

3642212077

(Number (ISBN

9783642212079

Number

b567304

Title Proper

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Boris A. Malomed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(XVII, 707 p. 340 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.)

Series Title

Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, 1.

Text of Note

This volume collects a number of contributions on the general theme of spontaneous symmetry breaking in nonlinear systems, and related topics. Current studies in these areas are going ahead at a full speed. Chapters included into the book present an overview on major recent achievements. They cover a number of different physical settings, which are introduced when a nonlinearity is added to underlying symmetric configurations. The spontaneous symmetry breaking, alias self-trapping into asymmetric states, happens when the strength of the nonlinearity exceeds a certain critical value. A related generic dynamical effect appears in the form of Josephson oscillations between mutually symmetric states. Theoretical studies of these phenomena, as well as related experimental findings, are extensively discussed in the book - chiefly, in the context of Bose-Einstein condensates and nonlinear optics.

Microwaves.

Physics.

Quantum Optics.

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Book number

edited by Boris A. Malomed.

Boris A Malomed

Electronic name

[Book]

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