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- Provides a thorough review of recent research on spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Offers a detailed explanation, including common concepts and terminology
- Helps readers understand the language used in field theory
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 1023)
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This open access book is about spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a classic area of theoretical physics that lies at the core of many fascinating phenomena such as ferromagnetism, superfluidity, superconductivity, or the Higgs mechanism. The book brings an up-to-date overview of spontaneous symmetry breaking and of modern effective field theory description thereof. The topics covered include the classification of Nambu–Goldstone bosons, nonlinear realization of internal and spacetime symmetries and the construction of the corresponding effective actions, and selected applications. With in-depth exposition of conceptual foundations and numerous illustrative examples, the book is accessible to anybody having taken a basic course on quantum field theory. It serves as a self-contained text for graduate students and junior researchers in diverse areas of physics, but also as a useful reference for experts.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prologue
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Front Matter
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Foundations
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Front Matter
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Spontaneously Broken Internal Symmetry
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Front Matter
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Spontaneously Broken Spacetime Symmetry
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Front Matter
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About the author
Tomáš Brauner earned his PhD in theoretical physics, astronomy, and astrophysics from Charles University in Prague in 2006. Following postdoctoral positions in Frankfurt, Bielefeld, Helsinki, and Vienna, he joined the University of Stavanger as an associate professor of physics in 2015 and was promoted to full professor in 2016. His research interests encompass various aspects of quantum field theory and its applications to particle, nuclear, and condensed-matter physics, with a particular emphasis on the role of symmetries and their spontaneous breaking.
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Book title: Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
Authors: Tomáš Brauner
Series title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48378-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48377-6Published: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48378-3Published: 12 April 2024
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: XVI, 429
Number of illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Cosmology