Phil Anderson and Gauge Symmetry Breaking
Abstract
In this article, I describe the celebrated paper that Phil Anderson wrote in 1962 with early contributions to the idea of gauge symmetry breaking in particle physics. To set the stage, I describe the work of Julian Schwinger to which Anderson was responding, and also some of Anderson's own work on superconductivity that provided part of the context. After describing Anderson's work I describe the later work of others, leading to the modern understanding of gauge symmetry breaking in weak interactions...
- Publication:
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PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814733632_0007
- Bibcode:
- 2016pwa..book...73W