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Symmetry Breaking through Superselection by Boundary Conditions
Silvester G. A. Borsboom, José P. Dupont
Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is central to modern physics but is conventionally defined only for infinite systems, raising challenges for its interpretation in finite, real-…
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Global Gauge Symmetry Breaking in the Abelian Higgs Mechanism
Silvester G. A. Borsboom, Sebastian De Haro
This paper aims to resolve the incompatibility between two extant gauge-invariant accounts of the Abelian Higgs mechanism: the first account uses global gauge symmetry breaking, an…