Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8205628 | Physics Letters A | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Different from the symmetry breaking associated with a phase transition, which occurs when the controlling parameter is manipulated across a critical point, the symmetry breaking presented in this Letter does not need parameter manipulation. Instead, the system itself suddenly undergoes symmetry breaking at a certain time during its evolution, which is intrinsic symmetry breaking. Through a polymer model, it is revealed that the origin of the intrinsic symmetry breaking is nonlinearity, which produces instability at the instance when the evolution crosses an inflexion point, where this instability breaks the original symmetry.
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Authors
Li Ge, Sheng Li, Thomas F. George, Xin Sun,