{"title":"Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking","authors":"Andreas Walter Aste","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzxx9rz.12","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) generally lacks a simple and intuitive introduction in the literature. This gap is filled by defining SSB in a universal context beyond its usual applications in physics and by discussing some very simple, but stunning examples of the phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":211281,"journal":{"name":"The Ideas of Particle Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"32","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Ideas of Particle Physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzxx9rz.12","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) generally lacks a simple and intuitive introduction in the literature. This gap is filled by defining SSB in a universal context beyond its usual applications in physics and by discussing some very simple, but stunning examples of the phenomenon.