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1. Sombreroid Potential

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   Physical Manifestations and Symmetry Breaking
   The primary physical significance of the sombreroid potential lies in its mechanism for Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB)/). When a physical system governed by a sombreroid potential cools below a critical temperature, $T_c$, the system necessarily transitions from the unstable, high-energy symmetric state ($\phi=0$) to one of the infinite, degenerate true vacuum states along the trough of the [potential well](/entries/pote…