Tag: quasiparticles
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The weird and wonderful world of quasiparticles
Electrons in materials can behave in strikingly different ways than their free counterparts. Especially at cold temperatures, interactions between electrons and atoms in a material make the whole system act more like it’s composed of free particles that have different masses and possibly different electric charge and spin from electrons. These are known as quasiparticles,…
Galileo's Pendulum 