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On the broken time translation symmetry in macroscopic systems: Precessing states and off-diagonal long-range order

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JETP LETTERS
Volume 98, Issue 8, Pages 491-495

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MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S0021364013210133

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  1. EU [228464]
  2. Academy of Finland [250280]

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The broken symmetry state with off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO), which is characterized by the vacuum expectation value of the operator of creation of the conserved quantum number Q, has the time-dependent order parameter. However, the breaking of the time translation symmetry is observable only if the charge Q is not strictly conserved and may decay. This dichotomy is resolved in systems with quasi-ODLRO. These systems have two well separated relaxation times: the relaxation time tau (Q) of the charge Q and the energy relaxation time tau (E) . If tau (Q) a parts per thousand << tau (E) , the perturbed system relaxes first to the state with the ODLRO, which persists for a long time and finally relaxes to the full equilibrium static state. In the limit tau Q -> a, but not in the strict limit case when the charge Q is conserved, the intermediate ODLRO state can be considered as the ground state of the system at fixed Q with the observable spontaneously broken time translation symmetry. Examples of systems with quasi-ODLRO are provided by superfluid phase of liquid He-4, Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons (phase coherent spin precession) and precessing vortices.

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