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Goldstone boson en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after British theoretical physicist Jeffrey Goldstone.

Meanings

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

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Relateds

Goldstone's theorem

Synonyms

Nambu-Goldstone boson