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Crystal gravity
Jan Zaanen, Floris Balm, Aron J. Beekman
We address a subject that could have been analyzed century ago: how does the universe of general relativity look like when it would have been filled with solid matter? Solids break…
Stability and Absence of a Tower of States in Ferrimagnets
Louk Rademaker, Aron Beekman, Jasper van Wezel
Antiferromagnets and ferromagnets are archetypes of the two distinct (type-A and type-B) ways of spontaneously breaking a continuous symmetry. Although type-B Nambu--Goldstone mode…
An Introduction to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Aron J. Beekman, Louk Rademaker, Jasper van Wezel
Perhaps the most important aspect of symmetry in physics is the idea that a state does not need to have the same symmetries as the theory that describes it. This phenomenon is know…
Theory of generalized Josephson effects
Aron J. Beekman
The DC Josephson effect is the flow of supercurrent across a weak link between two superconductors with a different value of their order parameter, the phase. We generalize this no…
Charged and neutral fixed points in the O(N)+O(N)-model with Abelian gauge fields
Aron J. Beekman, Gergely Fejős
In the Abelian-Higgs model, or Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity, the existence of an infrared stable charged fixed point ensures that there is a parameter range where the…
Dual gauge field theory of quantum liquid crystals in three dimensions
Aron J. Beekman, Jaakko Nissinen, Kai Wu +1
The dislocation-mediated quantum melting of solids into quantum liquid crystals is extended from two to three spatial dimensions, using a generalization of boson-vortex or Abelian-…