fermionic
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- adjective
- /ˌfɜrmiˈɒnɪk/
- Specialized
- In fundamental physics, a typical fermionic particle is one that complies with the Pauli exclusion principle.
- fermionic atoms
- fermionic pairs
- fermionic gas
Examples
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Recently, several groups have created bosonic molecules from fermionic atoms, and they have found that the molecules live long enough to allow the formation of a molecular BEC.
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Fortuitously, experimenters can take a gas of ultracold fermionic atoms smoothly from the BEC regime to the BCS regime simply by tuning a magnetic field.
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Let's start with the case of the fermionic state.
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One last aspect to think about and emerge from this fermionic perspective.
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Take this case for two fermions and ask yourself, so this is a fermionic wave function for two particles.
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All of that using fermionic valves for the logic elements inside your computer.
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The door is open to further explore the interface between the bosonic and fermionic worlds.
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To the left, fermionic atoms form bound molecules; to the right, they form BCS pairs.
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If the neutron star's material remains fermionic to the center, the neutrons are expected to exist as a superfluid.
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In a forthcoming paper, Hulet and his Rice University coworkers have studied further the nature of fermionic pairs.
Academic text (2005)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fermionic comes from the particle name fermion, which was named after the physicist Fermi. A fermion is a tiny particle like the familiar electron, and the ending -ic means 'relating to', so fermionic means 'relating to fermions' and their behavior.