Chiral symmetry breaking
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In particle physics, chiral symmetry breaking is an example of spontaneous symmetry breaking affecting the chiral symmetry of gauge theory such as Quantum Chromodynamics. The origin may be described as a fermion condensate (vacuum condensate of bilinear expressions involving the fermions). The pion decay constant may be viewed as a measure of the magnitude of the chiral symmetry breaking.
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