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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Phonon as the Goldstone Mode

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First is the Introduction to spontaneous symmetry breaking. Continuous symmetry is explained followed by phonon as a Goldstone mode and then Goldstone’s theorem.

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Gan, W.S. (2019). Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Phonon as the Goldstone Mode. In: Gauge Invariance Approach to Acoustic Fields. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8751-7_11

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