Concept information
Preferred term
Goldstone boson
Definition(s)
- In particle and condensed matter physics, Goldstone bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons (NGBs) are bosons that appear necessarily in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries. They were discovered by Yoichiro Nambu in particle physics within the context of the BCS superconductivity mechanism, and subsequently elucidated by Jeffrey Goldstone, and systematically generalized in the context of quantum field theory. In condensed matter physics such bosons are quasiparticles and are known as Anderson–Bogoliubov modes. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_boson)
Broader concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- Nambu–Goldstone boson
In other languages
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French
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boson de Nambu-Goldstone
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-P2ZK0SQX-D
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