# Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

@article{Weinberg1973RadiativeCA,
title={Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking},
author={E. Weinberg},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={1973},
volume={7},
pages={1888-1910}
}
We investigate the possibility that radiative corrections may produce spontaneous symmetry breakdown in theories for which the semiclassical (tree) approximation does not indicate such breakdown. The simplest model in which this phenomenon occurs is the electrodynamics of massless scalar mesons. We find (for small coupling constants) that this theory more closely resembles the theory with an imaginary mass (the Abelian Higgs model) than one with a positive mass; spontaneous symmetry breaking… Expand
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