Sakharov condition
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English
Etymology
Proposed in 1967 by Andrei Sakharov.
Noun
Sakharov condition (plural Sakharov conditions)
- (physics) Any of the three necessary conditions that a baryon-generating interaction must satisfy to produce matter and antimatter at different rates: (i) baryon number violation; (ii) C-symmetry and CP-symmetry violation; (iii) interactions out of thermal equilibrium.
References
- Sakharov, A. D. (1967) “Violation of CP invariance, C asymmetry and baryon asymmetry of the universe”, in JETP Letters, volume 5, number 1, archived from the original on 21 February 2020, pages 32-35