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work_av3swgicwvczrbiwv6aoui2ogq	James D. Fraser	Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite Systems	2016	21	.pdf	application/pdf	10231	656	50	According to these authors, the thermodynamic limit is predictively and explanatorily successful in phase transition theory because of features infinite systems share with large finite systems—specifically, the nonanalytic functions As with phase transitions, the definition of SSB in statistical mechanics refers to properties afforded by the thermodynamic limit: in this case, the nonuniqueness of the Understanding the nature of SSB in quantum field theory (QFT), and the appeal to spontaneously broken gauge symmetry in standard presentations of the Higgs mechanism in particular, is an ongoing project in the foundations of physics.1 My focus here, however, is on the more The analogous claim in the case of SSB would presumably be that the degenerate equilibrium states found in the thermodynamic limit are real features of macroscopic systems that can only be captured by idealized infinite volume models.	./cache/work_av3swgicwvczrbiwv6aoui2ogq.pdf	./txt/work_av3swgicwvczrbiwv6aoui2ogq.txt