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spontaneous symmetry breaking: a standalone construct

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a situation in which the laws are symmetric but the lowest-energy state is not, so the system settles into one of many equivalent states.

In particle physics, spontaneous symmetry breaking refers to a situation in which the laws are symmetric but the lowest-energy state is not, so the system settles into one of many equivalent states. This meaning comes from Nambu (1961) in Physical Review.[1]

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  1. Nambu, Y., & Jona-Lasinio, G. (1961). Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I. Physical Review, 122(1), 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.122.345

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