Symmetry breaking in Bose-Einstein condensates

Masahito Ueda

Tokyo Institute of Technology, ERATO-JST, Department of Physics, Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan

Symmetry breaking is a key to our understanding of our macroscopic quantum phenomena. I will discuss symmetry breaking occurring in scalar, spinor, and dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates.

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