Symmetry Breaking

by Franco Strocchi

Book Overview

The main motivation for such lecture notes is the importance of the concept and mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in modern theoretical physics and the relevance of a textbook exposition at the graduate student level beyond the oversimpli?ed (non-rigorous) treatments, often con?ned to speci?c models. One of the main points is to emphasize that the radical loss of symmetric behaviour requiresboth the existence of non-symmetric ground states...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364209273X
• ISBN13: 9783642092732
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"