Sakharov condition

English

Etymology

Proposed in 1967 by Andrei Sakharov.

Noun

Sakharov condition (plural Sakharov conditions)

1. (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^[1], volume 5, number 1, archived from the original on 21 February 2020, pages 32-35