spontaneouslyBrokenBy

P26399 predicate

Indicates that a symmetry or property is not explicitly violated by the underlying laws but is instead broken by the system’s ground state or configuration due to spontaneous symmetry breaking caused by the specified entity or mechanism.

Observed surface forms (2)

  • breaks ×1
  • breaksSymmetry ×1

Sample triples (3)

Subject Object
Higgs field SU(2)_L × U(1)_Y gauge symmetry via predicate surface "breaksSymmetry"
Higgs mechanism symmetry of the vacuum state via predicate surface "breaks"
SU(2)_L Higgs field vacuum expectation value