Goldstone boson

English

Etymology

Named after British theoretical physicist Jeffrey Goldstone.

Noun

Goldstone boson (plural Goldstone bosons)

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

Synonyms

  • Goldstone's theorem
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