"ghost condensate" meaning in English

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Noun

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
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