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Goldstone boson

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A spinless boson that necessarily appears in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries.

Word forms

Goldstone boson Goldstone bosons

Etymology

Named after British theoretical physicist Jeffrey Goldstone.

Synonyms

Nambu-Goldstone boson

Related words

Goldstone's theorem
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