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Goldstone boson
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English
Etymology
en British theoretical physicist Jeffrey Goldstone =.
Noun
en physics A spinless boson that necessarily appears in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries.
en Nambu-Goldstone boson
Related terms
en Goldstone's theorem
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