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    Soft modes

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    In theoretical condensed matter physics, soft modes emerge as a consequence of the Goldstone theorem. Soft modes are excitations 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". https://www.mit.edu/~levitov/8.334/#lecturenotes. Retrieved 11 August 2014. 




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