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Goldstone boson: a standalone construct

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Particle physics

a massless excitation that necessarily appears when a continuous global symmetry is spontaneously broken.

In particle physics, Goldstone boson refers to a massless excitation that necessarily appears when a continuous global symmetry is spontaneously broken. This meaning comes from Goldstone (1961) in Il Nuovo Cimento.[1]

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References

Goldstone, J. (1961). Field theories with « Superconductor » solutions. Il Nuovo Cimento, 19(1), 154-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02812722

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