Spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum field theory occurs when the ground state (or vacuum state) of a system is not invariant under the full group of transformations providing the conservation laws for the system.

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  Quantum Approaches to Consciousness

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• quantum field theory concept
• vacuum state concept