Vacuum fluctuations surrounding soft gluon fields

On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization

Julian Schwinger · Physical Review · 1951 · 7.1K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Electromagnetism +16

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An unstable Yang-Mills field mode

N.K. Nielsen, P. Olesen · Nuclear Physics B · 1978 · 671 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Electromagnetism +7

Infrared instability of the vacuum state of gauge theories and asymptotic freedom

George Savvidy · Physics Letters B · 1977 · 610 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +16

Breaking Chiral Symmetry

Sheldon L. Glashow, Steven Weinberg · Physical Review Letters · 1968 · 582 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Condensed Matter Physics +8