Open AccessQuasiparticle
Author(s) -
Stephen Ornes
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1417044111
Subject(s) - quasiparticle , courtesy , german , physics , electron , quantum , condensed matter physics , quantum mechanics , political science , philosophy , law , linguistics , superconductivity
Physicists have identified dozens of different subatomic species in the particle zoo, but most physical and chemical interactions arise from only three: the proton, the neutron, and the electron. There are a lot of those: solids and liquids contain on the order of 1024 particles per cubic centimeter. In February, JILA physicists and German theorists described the dropleton (or “quantum droplet”), a quasiparticle made of a network of electrons and holes that combines quantum characteristics with some properties of a liquid. Image courtesy of the Cundiff group and Brad …
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