Patterns of Symmetry Breaking /

The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking plays a fundamental role in contemporary physics. It is essential to descriptions of such phenomena as the presence of degenerate ground states, massless modes, and topological defects. Examples are abundant in condensed matter physics, atomic and particl...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Arodź, Henryk
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Dziarmaga, Jacek, Zurek, Wojciech Hubert
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer, 2003.
Series:	NATO science series. Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; 127.
Subjects:	Broken symmetry (Physics) Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book