ghost condensate

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ghost condensate (plural ghost condensates)

  1. (particle physics) The proposed situation in which a ghost (an excitation of a field with a wrong sign of the kinetic term) acquires a vacuum expectation value, spontaneously breaking Lorentz invariance.
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