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Symmetry and fundamental physics : Tom Kibble at 80 / / edited by Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College London, UK
| Symmetry and fundamental physics : Tom Kibble at 80 / / edited by Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College London, UK |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 151 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina |
530
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| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Symmetry (Physics)
Physics |
| ISBN | 981-4583-06-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Photos; Tom Kibble and the Early Universe as the Ultimate High Energy Experiment; 1. Introduction; 2. Inflation; 3. Can We Do Better?; 4. The Electroweak Higgs: A New Clue; 5. Weyl Invariance and the Big Crunch/Big Bang Transition; 6. Holographic Description of a Bouncing Cosmology; 7. Summary and Conclusions; References; Universality of Phase Transition Dynamics: Topological Defects from Symmetry Breaking; 1. Introduction; 2. The Kibble-Zurek Mechanism; 3. Landau Zener Crossing as a Quantum Example of the KZM
3.1. Controlling excitations in Landau Zener crossing4. Quantum Phase Transitions; 5. Adiabatic Crossing of Quantum Phase Transition; 6. The KZM and Transitions between Steady States; 7. Winding Numbers in Loops; 7.1. Trapping flux in small loops; 8. Defect Formation in Multiferroics; 9. The Inhomogeneous Kibble-Zurek Mechanism; 10. Kink Formation in Ion Chains; 10.1. Prospects of ground-state cooling of ion chains; 11. Soliton Formation in Bose Einstein Condensation; 12. Vortex Formation in a Newborn Bose Einstein Condensate; 13. Mott Insulator to Superfluid Transition 8.3.6. Compatibility of the observed state with the SM Higgs boson hypothesis: non-standard couplings9. Conclusions and Outlook; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; References; Tom Kibble: Breaking Ground and Breaking Symmetries; Tom Kibble at 80: After Dinner Speech; References; Publication List |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790977903321 |
| New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Symmetry and fundamental physics : Tom Kibble at 80 / / edited by Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College London, UK
| Symmetry and fundamental physics : Tom Kibble at 80 / / edited by Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College London, UK |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 151 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina |
530
539.7 539.7/258 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Symmetry (Physics)
Physics |
| ISBN | 981-4583-06-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Photos; Tom Kibble and the Early Universe as the Ultimate High Energy Experiment; 1. Introduction; 2. Inflation; 3. Can We Do Better?; 4. The Electroweak Higgs: A New Clue; 5. Weyl Invariance and the Big Crunch/Big Bang Transition; 6. Holographic Description of a Bouncing Cosmology; 7. Summary and Conclusions; References; Universality of Phase Transition Dynamics: Topological Defects from Symmetry Breaking; 1. Introduction; 2. The Kibble-Zurek Mechanism; 3. Landau Zener Crossing as a Quantum Example of the KZM
3.1. Controlling excitations in Landau Zener crossing4. Quantum Phase Transitions; 5. Adiabatic Crossing of Quantum Phase Transition; 6. The KZM and Transitions between Steady States; 7. Winding Numbers in Loops; 7.1. Trapping flux in small loops; 8. Defect Formation in Multiferroics; 9. The Inhomogeneous Kibble-Zurek Mechanism; 10. Kink Formation in Ion Chains; 10.1. Prospects of ground-state cooling of ion chains; 11. Soliton Formation in Bose Einstein Condensation; 12. Vortex Formation in a Newborn Bose Einstein Condensate; 13. Mott Insulator to Superfluid Transition 8.3.6. Compatibility of the observed state with the SM Higgs boson hypothesis: non-standard couplings9. Conclusions and Outlook; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; References; Tom Kibble: Breaking Ground and Breaking Symmetries; Tom Kibble at 80: After Dinner Speech; References; Publication List |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807279403321 |
| New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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