Linking emergent phenomena and broken symmetries through one-dimensional objects and their dot/cross products.
Linking emergent phenomena and broken symmetries through one-dimensional objects and their dot/cross products.
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通过一维对象及其点/叉积将涌现现象和对称性破缺联系起来。
DOI:
10.1088/1361-6633/ac97aa
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发表时间:
2022
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Cheong SW
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Cheong SW
The symmetry of the whole experimental setups, including specific sample environments and measurables, can be compared with that of specimens for observable physical phenomena. We, first, focus on one-dimensional (1D) experimental setups, independent from any spatial rotation around one direction, and show that eight kinds of 1D objects (four; vector-like, the other four; director-like), defined in terms of symmetry, and their dot and cross products are an effective way for the symmetry consideration. The dot products form a Z 2× Z 2× Z 2 group with Abelian additive operation, and the cross products form a Z 2× Z 2 group with Abelian additive operation or Q 8, a non-Abelian group of order eight, depending on their signs. Those 1D objects are associated with characteristic physical phenomena. When a 3D specimen has symmetry operational similarity (SOS) with (identical or lower, but not higher, symmetries than) an 1D object with a particular phenomenon, the 3D specimen can exhibit the phenomenon. This SOS approach can be a transformative and unconventional avenue for symmetry-guided materials designs and discoveries.