The Higgs mechanism is normally associated with high energy physics, but its roots lie in superconductivity. And now there is evidence for a Higgs mode in disordered superconductors near the superconductor–insulator transition.
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Anderson, P. Higgs, Anderson and all that. Nature Phys 11, 93 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3247
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