Sakharov condition

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounSakharov condition (plural Sakharov conditions)

plural Sakharov conditions

  1. natural sciencesAny 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.

Origin

Proposed in 1967 by Andrei Sakharov.

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