ghost condensates

A form of ghost condensate — 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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noun
  1. pluralplural of ghost condensate
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