Etymology

Sakharov condition

Today it means: Any of the three necessary conditions that a baryon-generating interaction must satisfy to produce matter and antimatter at different rates: (i) baryon number violation; (ii) C-symmetry and CP-symmetry violation; (iii) interactions out of thermal equilibrium. Full definition →

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Proposed in 1967 by Andrei Sakharov.

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