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Symmetry breaking

Title
Symmetry breaking / Franco Strocchi.
Author
Strocchi, F.
Publication
Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2005.

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Description
viii, 203 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Lecture notes in physics, 0075-8450 ; 643
Uniform Title
Lecture notes in physics ; 643.
Subject
  • Broken symmetry (Physics)
  • Symmetriebrechung
  • Física
  • BROKEN SYMMETRY
  • PHYSICS
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS
  • Mathematical physics
  • Field theory (Physics)
  • Quantum theory
  • Topological groups
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Pt. I. Symmetry breaking in classical systems -- 1. Symmetries of a classical system -- 2. Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- 3. Symmetries in classical field theory -- 4. General properties of solutions of classical field equations -- 5. Stable structures, Hilbert sectors, phases -- 6. Sectors with energy-momentum density -- 7. An improved Noether theorem : spontaneous symmetry breaking -- 8. Examples -- 9. The Goldstone theorem -- 10. Appendix -- Pt. II. Symmetry breaking in quantum systems -- 1. Quantum mechanics : algebraic structure and states -- 2. Fock representation -- 3. Non-fock representations -- 4. Mathematical description of infinitely extended systems -- 5. Physically relevant representations -- 6. Cluster property and pure phases -- 7. Examples -- 8. Symmetry breaking in quantum systems -- 9. Examples -- 10. Constructive symmetry breaking -- 11. Symmetry breaking in the Ising model -- 12. Thermal states -- 13. Fermi and Bose gas at non-zero temperature -- 14. Qauntum fields at non-zero temperature -- 15. Breaking of continuous symmetries : Goldstone's theorem -- 16. The Goldstone theorem at non-zero temperature -- 17. The Goldstone theorem for relativistic local fields -- 18. An extension of Goldstone theorem to non-symmetric Hamiltonians -- 19. The Higgs mechanism : a theorem.
ISBN
  • 354021318X
  • 9783540213185
LCCN
2004108950
OCLC
  • ocm60346804
  • 60346804
  • SCSB-1361770
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library