"ghost condensate" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: ghost condensates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ghost condensate (plural ghost condensates)
  1. (particle physics) The proposed situation in which a ghost (an excitation of a field with a wrong sign of the kinetic term) acquires a vacuum expectation value, spontaneously breaking Lorentz invariance. Tags: particle Categories (topical): Particle physics
    Sense id: en-ghost_condensate-en-noun-H80jjebB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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