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    Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a spontaneous process of symmetry breaking, by which a physical system in a symmetric state spontaneously ends up in an...
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    ground state fails to be invariant. This section describes spontaneous symmetry breaking. This is the idea that for a physical system, the lowest energy...
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  • In particle physics, chiral symmetry breaking generally refers to the dynamical spontaneous breaking of a chiral symmetry associated with massless fermions...
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    O(N) global symmetry is no longer manifest, leaving only the subgroup O(N − 1). The larger symmetry before spontaneous symmetry breaking is said to be...
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  • involved. Explicit symmetry breaking differs from spontaneous symmetry breaking. In the latter, the defining equations respect the symmetry but the ground...
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  • combustion Spontaneous Music Ensemble Spontaneous order Spontaneous process Spontaneous remission Spontaneous symmetry breaking Spontaneous (album) by...
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    breaking gauge invariance, as a byproduct of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Initially, the mathematical theory behind spontaneous symmetry breaking was...
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  • case, there is spontaneous symmetry breaking of the rotational symmetry of the Hamiltonian. When a continuous symmetry is spontaneously broken, massless...
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  • would spontaneously break the O(2) symmetry. A continuous broken symmetry leads to a Goldstone boson. This type of spontaneous symmetry breaking is the...
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    extremely high temperature, the field causes spontaneous symmetry breaking during interactions. The breaking of symmetry triggers the Higgs mechanism, causing...
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