Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y Nambu (World Scientific 20th Century Physics) by Tohru Eguchi (PDF)

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This book contains selected papers of Prof Nambu who is one of the most original and outstanding particle theorists of our time. This volume consists of about 40 papers which made fundamental contributions to our understanding of particle physics during the last few decades.The unpublished lecture note on string theory (1969) and the first paper on spontaneous symmetry breaking (1961) are retyped and included. The book also contains a memoir of Prof Nambu on his research career.

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Editorial Reviews: Review The book benefits from the inclusion of previously unpublished material, informal lectures and conference-summary talks that are not widely available. These, together with the selected research papers, provide an excellent scientific biography of Nambu and of the Japanese physics tradition, which he describes in several places … it is in the less formal presentations that the motivation for Nambu’s ideas, as well as his charming modesty, become evident and make reading this collection the pleasure that it is. –Physics Today Review In the citation of Nobel physics prize committee, Nambu’s unpublished paper presented at Mid West Conference at Purdue University in 1960 is referred to as the original article on spontaneously broken symmetry. This is the paper which we have decided to include in the volume `Broken Symmetry’ because of its historical importance. The paper would have been inaccessible and may not have been noticed by the general public if it were not retyped and included in the volume.

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⭐A collection of “…papers selected by Nambu himself.” (editorial forward). Nuggets of wisdom abound:(1) Nambu: “When one begins to discuss strong interactions, one must be guided by simplicity.” (remarks made during 1967 Conference discussion, page 245).(2) Nambu: “This may be an indication that quantum theory is pretty much unique, although its classical analogue may not be.” (page 308, extracted from: Generalized Hamiltonian Mechanics, Physical Review D,1973).(3) Nambu: “It is not my intention to question quantum mechanics itself, which is one of the most beautiful and profound manifestations of physical laws. The various attempts at an alternative to quantum mechanics do not seem very relevant or to serve constructive purposes.” (page 351).(4) Nambu: “Quantum Field Theory is a rather rigidly constrained framework. It is practically impossible to conceive of a more general field theory which does not run into conflict with some of the axioms and thus with sound physical principles.” (1984, remark from Physics Reports, pages 344-365, Higher-Energy Physics).(5) Nambu: “It is instructive, however, to reflect on how the nature of the real world, down to the existence of life itself, may be critically dependent on some very subtle properties of the Kobayashi-Maskawa fermion mass matrix.” (page 387, 1985, Directions of Particle Physics).(6) Nambu: “The basic extensive quantity in field theory is the volume of space-time, because there is no other natural way to count the number of dynamical degrees of freedom attached to each point of a continuum.” (page 402). Taken from: Thermodynamic Analogy In Quantum Field Theory,1987.There you have a rather small subset representative of these 40 publications. A “Nambu” publication list concludes the book. There is much more to assimilate, as I have not touched upon Nambu’s contributions to spontaneous symmetrybreaking or String Theory. But, why spoil the fun ? This is a beautiful volume to dip into.Highly recommended.

⭐This volume is a collection of papers by one of the greatest theoretical physicsts you’ve probably never heard of (unless you yourself are a theoretical physicist). His fingerprints are on most of the major theoretical developments of the past half century, from spontaneous symmetry breaking to QCD to string theory. This collection features difficult to find papers, some unpublished, which had a profound impact. In an age so infused with vacuous hype, it is inspirational to review the work of such an original yet self-effacing thinker.

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