English Explanatory Dictionary

ghost condensate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The proposed situation in which a ghost (an excitation of a field with a wrong sign of the kinetic term) acquires a vacuum expectation value, spontaneously breaking Lorentz invariance.

Word forms

ghost condensate ghost condensates
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