quasiparticle
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- noun
- /ˈkwɑːzɪˌpɑːrtɪkl/
- Specialized
- A quantum Hall interferometer could establish an essential requirement of topological quantum computing: that quasiparticles be nonabelian.
- nonabelian quasiparticles
- quasiparticle excitation
- number of quasiparticles
Examples
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Researchers are studying how quasiparticles behave in different materials to understand their properties.
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The magnetoroton minimum in the dispersion of intra-Landau-level excitations is due to the attraction between the fractionally charged quasiparticles.
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How the nature and number of the quasiparticles influence O is the key to the experiment.
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Individual quasiparticle frequencies provide a more sensitive test of finite-temperature theory.
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As the quasiparticles circulate in the central zone, they acquire an additional phase O.
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Proving that the quasiparticles in the 5/2 state are indeed nonabelian is therefore a necessary first step.
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Rotons are a type of quasiparticle behavior that also occurs in superfluid liquid helium.
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Around the edges (green arrows), quasiparticles flow in a chiral edge current.
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The third member, at a filling factor of 12/5, has nonabelian quasiparticles.
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A collective of 2N Moore-Read quasiparticles possesses 2(N-1) degenerate states.
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How Particle-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Quasiparticle comes from the parts quasi- meaning 'almost' and particle, so it means 'almost a particle'. In physics, a quasiparticle is something inside a material that behaves like a real particle, which is why scientists use that name.