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Emergent symmetries
As we know, spontaneous symmetry breaking(SSB) is a very important concept in physics. Loosely speaking, zero temprature SSB says that the Hamiltonian of a quantum system has some symmetry, but the ...
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Is the “particle number” of “electrons” well defined in Wen's string-net theory of elementary particles?
According to professor Wen's string-net theory(Colloquium: Photons and electrons as emergent phenomena, Levin and Wen, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 871(2005), see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407140), ...
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A simple model that exhibits emergent symmetry?
In a previous question Emergent symmetries I asked, Prof.Luboš Motl said that emergent symmetries are never exact. But I wonder whether the following example is an counterexample that has exact ...
