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arxiv: 1902.05836 · v1 · pith:RCBPIWZXnew · submitted 2019-02-15 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

Entanglement of boundary conditions giving rise to spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum mechanics

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keywords boundarybreakingspontaneoussymmetrybroken-symmetryconditionsentanglementgiving
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We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in one dimensional quantum mechanical problems in terms of two-point boundary problems which lead to singular potentials containing Dirac delta functions and its derivatives. We search for broken-symmetry bound states. For a particular entanglement of boundary conditions, we show the existence of a ground state, giving rise to a spontaneous symmetry breaking, stable under the phenomenon of decoherence generated from external fluctuations. We discuss the model in the context of the "chiral" broken-symmetry states of molecules like $NH_3$.

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