In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the gluon condensate is a non-perturbative property of the QCD vacuum which could be partly responsible for giving masses to light mesons.
[1] It is not clear yet whether this condensate is related to any of the known phase changes[which?]
For more on the context in which this quantity occurs, see the article on the QCD vacuum.
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