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1972/08/04 by P. W. Anderson, Philip W. Anderson · 1 voice · 29 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · doi:10.1126/science.177.4047.393

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Citations

• Quasi-Particles and Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superconductivity
• Broken Symmetries

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Discussions

• Actually the full 3 sentences surrounding OP's first quote from the 2nd column on p. 394 of Anderson's 1972 article [1] are: I will not go through the proof, but the result is that the state of the sy [stackexchange, 0 points]