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noun
A spinless boson that necessarily appears in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Synonyms: Nambu-Goldstone boson
Antonyms: none provided
History
Named after British theoretical physicist Jeffrey Goldstone.
