Symmetry breaking far from equilibrium
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 24 (3), 1629-1632
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.24.1629
Abstract
An examination of the Rayleigh-Bénard convection experiment shows that the defining features of long-range order and spontaneous symmetry breaking, as they occur in equilibrium transitions, are also observed far from equilibrium. The broken symmetry is not, as has been suggested, translational invariance, but rather a discrete symmetry under velocity reversal. Some experimental consequences of these observations are outlined.Keywords
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