Statistical Physics and Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

Symmetries have long been known to play a major role in physics. In particular, a careful study of their influence in a given system demonstrates that they provide very strong constraints on the behaviour of the system, sometimes even providing exact information that is known to hold, independent of the model and its further approximations and truncations. In this Issue, we concentrate on the role that symmetries play in statistical physics, where the constraints they impose can lead to a dramatic reduction in the independent degrees of freedom of the system. We aim to provide the reader with a glimpse at the vast landscape opened up by symmetries and their connection to scaling relations in systems with many particles (in the broad sense of the term), with a particular emphasis on the breadth of their applications, which cover very different topics in physics, both from a theoretical and a numerical point of view. 

Dr. Olivier Coquand
Guest Editor

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