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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations

  • 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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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Frequency and Phase Locking of Laser Cavity Solitons

    • T. Ackemann, Y. Noblet, P. V. Paulau, C. McIntyre, P. Colet, W. J. Firth et al.
    Pages 49-87
  3. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Pinned Modes in Nonlinear Gratings with an Embedded Pair of Defects

    • I. V. Kabakova, I. Uddin, J. Jeyaratnam, C. M. de Sterke, B. A. Malomed
    Pages 149-165
  4. Guided Modes and Symmetry Breaking Supported by Localized Gain

    • Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, Victor A. Vysloukh, Dmitry A. Zezyulin
    Pages 167-200
  5. Trapping Polarization of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: An Ideal Raman Polarizer

    • Victor V. Kozlov, Javier Nuño, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, Stefan Wabnitz
    Pages 227-246
  6. Pattern Formation Under a Localized Gain

    • Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy
    Pages 309-320
  7. From Coherent Modes to Turbulence and Granulation of Trapped Gases

    • V. S. Bagnato, V. I. Yukalov
    Pages 377-401
  8. Bright Solitary Matter Waves: Formation, Stability and Interactions

    • T. P. Billam, A. L. Marchant, S. L. Cornish, S. A. Gardiner, N. G. Parker
    Pages 403-455
  9. Temperature Effects on the Quantum Coherence of Bosonic Josephson Junctions

    • B. Juliá-Díaz, J. Martorell, A. Polls
    Pages 473-484

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Engineering The Iby and Aladar Fleischman, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

    Boris A. Malomed

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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