Soft modes

In theoretical condensed matter physics soft modes emerge as a consequence of Goldstone theorem. Soft modes are excitation above the ground state whose energy vanishes in the limit of long wavelengths.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Levitov, Leonid. "Statistical Physics II. Long-range order, symmetry and soft modes". Retrieved 11 August 2014.


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