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Symmetry breaking is routinely observed in isolated systems, where perturbations propagate through the system. For out-of-equilibrium systems, however, perturbations are predicted to diffuse; and this key signature of spontaneous symmetry breaking has now been observed in a polariton quantum fluid.
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