Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Nambu–Goldstone modes in open classical and quantum systems

Yoshimasa Hidaka (Nishina Center, , RIKEN, Wako 351-0198, , Japan) ; Yuki Minami (Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, , Hangzhou 310027, , China)

Abstract We discuss spontaneous symmetry breaking of open classical and quantum systems. When a continuous symmetry is spontaneously broken in an open system, a gapless excitation mode appears corresponding to the Nambu–Goldstone mode. Unlike isolated systems, the gapless mode is not always a propagation mode, but it is a diffusion one. Using the Ward–Takahashi identity and the effective action formalism, we establish the Nambu–Goldstone theorem in open systems, and derive the low-energy coefficients that determine the dispersion relation of Nambu–Goldstone modes. Using these coefficients, we classify the Nambu–Goldstone modes into four types: type-A propagation, type-A diffusion, type-B propagation, and type-B diffusion modes.

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Published on:
26 March 2020
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OUP
Published in:
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics , Volume 2020 (2020)
Issue 3
Article ID: 033A01
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptaa005
arXiv:
1907.08241
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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan.
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