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View article: Evading the Goldstone theorem
Evading the Goldstone theorem Open
Peter W. Higgs describes in detail his interest from 1960 in the work of Nambu and Goldstone and the background events leading to the papers of 1964 that showed how one can evade the Goldstone theorem using a gauge theory. He also discusse…
View article: Nobel Lecture: Evading the Goldstone theorem
Nobel Lecture: Evading the Goldstone theorem Open
Received 17 February 2014DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.86.851© 2014 Nobel Foundation, Published by The American Physical Society*The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by François Englert and Peter Higgs. These papers are the…
View article: Evading the Goldstone theorem
Evading the Goldstone theorem Open
Peter W. Higgs describes in detail his interest from 1960 in the work of Nambu and Goldstone and the background events leading to the papers of 1964 that showed how one can evade the Goldstone theorem using a gauge theory. He also discusse…
View article: Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown without Massless Bosons
Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown without Massless Bosons Open
We examine a simple relativistic theory of two scalar fields, first discussed by Goldstone, in which as a result of spontaneous breakdown of $U(1)$ symmetry one of the scalar bosons is massless, in conformity with the Goldstone theorem. Wh…
View article: Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons
Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons Open
This article appears in the following collection:Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective2008 marked PRL's 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations a collection of milestone Letters was started. The collection contains Letters that…
View article: Vibrational modifications of the electron distribution in molecular crystals. I. The density in a vibrating carbon atom
Vibrational modifications of the electron distribution in molecular crystals. I. The density in a vibrating carbon atom Open
amplitude of isotrople thermal motion.It is found that quite a small amplitude suffices to reduce the peak density considerably below the value in a stationary atom; on the other hand, the bridge density in a bond between two atoms is incr…