Soft modes

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". Retrieved 11 August 2014.
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