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Boson metastable ground states with spontaneous symmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We show that a system of bosons in a T=0 quantum field theory can present metastable ground states with spontaneous symmetry breaking, even in the absence of an imaginary mass term. This gives a natural explanation to the Davis-Shellard background field \exp(-i \omega_0 t) and adds a new degree of freedom in boson systems, with possible applications in cosmology, condensed matter and high energy physics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9707263,
  title  = {Boson metastable ground states with spontaneous symmetry breaking},
  author = {M. Chaves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9707263},
  year   = {2009}
}