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Potential
With suitable headgear, Peter Higgs prepares to give a talk at Durham university.
The Higgs mechanism is an example of the ubiquitous phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry-breaking, where a system under symmetrical influences takes up an unsymmetrical configuration.
It is often illustrated with the so-called Mexican-hat potential where the hat has circular symmetry and the symmetrical configuration at the top of the crown is unstable and so the system occupies the off-centre trough round the brim.
Potential
With suitable headgear, Peter Higgs prepares to give a talk at Durham university.
The Higgs mechanism is an example of the ubiquitous phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry-breaking, where a system under symmetrical influences takes up an unsymmetrical configuration.
It is often illustrated with the so-called Mexican-hat potential where the hat has circular symmetry and the symmetrical configuration at the top of the crown is unstable and so the system occupies the off-centre trough round the brim.