A common mechanism of collective phenomena
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 64 (1) , 313-319
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.64.313
Abstract
A common thread is followed through diverse phenomena: Weak interactions lock seemingly independent variables into a collective state of enhanced or depressed energy. A rather novel perspective is thus afforded on superconductivity and on nuclear and particle physics.Keywords
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