A symmetry generated by is spontaneously broken when the vacuum is not invariant:
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A local order parameter is obtained by finding a field for which
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with the sign depending on the commutator convention. This criterion is useful in infinite volume because it can remain finite even when the spatially integrated charge itself is not a well-defined normalizable operator.

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