A domain wall is a type of topological soliton that occurs whenever a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken.
Domain walls are also sometimes called kinks in analogy with closely related kink solution of the sine-Gordon model or models with polynomial potentials.
[1][2][3] Unstable domain walls can also appear if spontaneously broken discrete symmetry is approximate and there is a false vacuum.
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