Colloquium October 2- When a Symmetry Breaks
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1/1-1 - Aula "A. Rostagni"
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo
Speaker: Prof. Hitoshi Murayama
Affiliation: Professor at the University of Berkeley and Founding Director of the Kavli IPMU in Tokyo
Date: October 2nd, 2025, 3 p.m.
Where: Aula Rostagni
Abstract: What is common among a magnet, a halibut, a rack of laundry, cubes of ice, superconductor, and the Higgs boson? The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking is a common theme for many natural phenomena. I'll describe the basic concept and its applications. In particular, the original concepts from Anderson, Nambu, Goldstone, and Higgs do not quite work in many systems that include a magnet on your fridge. I generalize the concept so that it is applicable to all known natural phenomena around us.
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UniPadovaAulaRostagni
Aleksandra Kravtsova
Alessandro Verganti
Alessio Inglese
Andrea Fenech
Andrea Zoppi
Anna Giorgia Macrì
Antonio Trovato
Arsenii Titov
Fabio Apruzzi
Federico Toccafondi
Francesco D'Eramo
Francesco Piro
franco simonetto
Fulvio Baldovin
Giovanni Gerardo
Giovanni Maria Pontiroli
Giulia Piaggio
Giuseppe Calajò
Konstantin Schmid
Leonardo Palombini
Leonardo Papa
Martucci Luca
Muhammad Younas Khan
Neelam Singh
Paolo Umari
Riccardo Sbarbati
Rihab Nawaz
Rosa Laura Lechuga Solis
Scognamiglio Alessandro
Weilong Chen
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