Historical roots of spontaneous symmetry breaking : steps towards an analogy / / Rocco Gaudenzi

• Autore: Gaudenzi Rocco
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (139 pages)
• Disciplina: 539.725
• Soggetto topico: Broken symmetry (Physics); Broken symmetry (Physics) - History
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and a Few Words on the Methodology -- References -- 2 Traits of an Emerging Tradition: Modern Physics in Japan -- 2.1 Tomonaga's Approach to the Open Questions of Particle Physics -- 2.1.1 At Heisenberg's and the Renewed Interest in Nuclear Meson Hypothesis -- 2.1.2 A Creative Application of the Hartree Method -- 2.1.3 The Tomonaga-Nishina Seminars and the Development of Quantum Field Theory -- 2.1.4 The Elementary Particle in the Aftermath of Renormalisation -- 2.2 The Collective Description of Many-body Systems -- 2.2.1 A Change of Paradigm in the Description of Nuclei and Plasmas -- 2.2.2 Bohm and the Many-body Problem in Plasmas and Metals: Inspirations from Quantum Electrodynamics -- References -- 3 Yoichiro Nambu and the Collective Description of Many-particle Systems -- 3.1 Lehrjahre and Inclinations of the Young Nambu -- 3.1.1 Nambu's Nuclear Program and the Root of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -- 3.2 The Concept of Apparent Vacuum: Extending Field Theory to Real Media -- 3.2.1 Nuclear Matter as a ``di-mesic'' Medium -- 3.2.2 Nuclear Matter as a Plasma Medium -- References -- 4 Elementary Particles as Excitations of a Solid Medium. Is the Universe a Superconductor? -- 4.1 Constructing Superconductivity -- 4.1.1 Superconductivity Is Most of All Perfect Diamagnetism, or the Consequences of a Perspective Shift -- 4.1.2 On a Search for the Microscopic Mechanism -- 4.1.3 Bardeen, Pines, Cooper, Schrieffer, or the Resolution -- 4.1.4 Bogolyubov's ``New Method'', or the Reformulation of Superconductivity -- 4.1.5 Discovering by Way of Translating: Nambu and the ``Mathematical Structure'' of Superconductivity -- 4.2 The Universe as a Superconducting Solid -- 4.2.1 Cultivating Parallel Problems: Nambu's Stereoscopic View -- 4.2.2 The Vacuum of the Universe Through the Lens of Superconductivity. ; 4.2.3 From Flash to Flesh: The Theory of Elementary Particles Suggested by Superconductivity -- 4.2.4 Epilogue. The Impact of Nambu's Vision and the Offshoots of the Analogy -- References -- 5 Historical and Epistemological Reflections -- 5.1 Individual and Collective, Micro and Macro Meet … -- 5.1.1 Few to Many: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Evolution of the Ideas of Particle and Vacuum -- 5.1.2 The Heuristic Virtues of a ``Scale'' Model of the Universe -- 5.2 Methodologies and Worldviews on the Japanese Shores -- 5.2.1 The Influence of Tomonaga and the Local Socio-Economic Context of Japan -- 5.2.2 On Yukawa and Sakata's World-view and Its Sway -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
• ISBN: 9783030998950; 9783030998943
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910568297803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology