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Visualizing or Interacting with the Higgs Field
Well, if you have a scale and step on it, it will tell you your weight.
Let's say your weight is 100kg (please let me know if you need modification), then around 1kg is coming from the quark's mass ...
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Why are there no Goldstone modes in superconductor?
A neutral fermionic superluid has gapless soundwaves that can be regarded as a Goldstone mode due to the spontaneous breakdown of translational symmetry, but the fluctuating quantity in the sound ...
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Why are there no Goldstone modes in superconductor?
The Goldstone modes of a superconductor (considered as an electron gas with attractive potential) are physically the oscillations of electron density. As electrons are intrinsically charged, this will ...
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Could cosmic rays induce a vacuum decay in the future?
The usual line of reasoning about vacuum decay treats it as a random phenomenon: there are events where it might be triggered, and since it has not happened yet we get a bound on how likely it is. ...
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Misconceptions in spontaneous symmetry breaking
For completeness let us write down the potential
$$V(\phi)=-\mu^2\phi^2+\lambda \phi^4$$
In what follows we will use the term "invariant", which means: "does not change".
The ...
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