symmetry breaking

effect or phenomenon that is not invariant under a presumed or approximate symmetry of a physical system
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symmetry breaking

Summary

symmetry breaking ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (186 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • symmetry breaking's subclass of is recorded as physical phenomenon[2].
  • symmetry breaking's subclass of is recorded as pattern formation[3].
  • symmetry breaking's subclass of is recorded as reduction[4].
  • symmetry breaking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/059zt_[5].
  • symmetry breaking's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/broken-symmetry[6].
  • symmetry breaking's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/symmetry-breaking[7].
  • symmetry breaking's has effect is recorded as asymmetry[8].
  • symmetry breaking's studied by is recorded as physics[9].
  • symmetry breaking's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as symmetry-breaking[10].
  • symmetry breaking's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as broken-symmetry[11].
  • symmetry breaking's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 136955[12].
  • symmetry breaking's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 204795200[13].
  • symmetry breaking's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C204795200[14].
  • symmetry breaking's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as mathematics/symmetry-breaking[15].
  • symmetry breaking's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/broken-symmetry[16].
  • symmetry breaking's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as earth-and-planetary-sciences/broken-symmetry[17].
  • symmetry breaking's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 407451[18].

Why It Matters

symmetry breaking ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (186 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  13. [14] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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