 Spontaneous symmetry breaking (source code)

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= Spontaneous symmetry breaking
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the action and equations have a symmetry but a chosen <ground state> is invariant only under a proper subgroup. Acting with the broken symmetry generates a degenerate <vacuum manifold>.

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