Quasiparticle
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Signification
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Underlying particles
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Angulon
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Used to describe the rotation of molecules in solvents. First postulated theoretically in 2015,[1] the existence of the angulon was confirmed in February 2017, after a series of experiments spanning 20 years. Heavy and light species of molecules were found to rotate inside superfluid helium droplets, in good agreement with the angulon theory.[2][3]
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Anyon
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A type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than fermions and bosons.
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exciton
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Biexciton
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A bound state of two free excitons
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Bion
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A bound state of solitons, named for Born–Infeld model
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soliton
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Bipolaron
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A bound pair of two polarons
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polaron
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Bogolon
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Broken Cooper pair
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electron, hole
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Composite fermion
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Arise in a two-dimensional system subject to a large magnetic field, most famously those systems that exhibit the fractional quantum Hall effect.[4]
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electron
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Configuron[5]
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An elementary configurational excitation in an amorphous material which involves breaking of a chemical bond
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Cooper pair
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A bound pair of two electrons
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electron
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Dirac electron
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Electrons in graphene behave as relativistic massless Dirac fermions
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electron
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Dislon
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A localized collective excitation associated with a dislocation in crystalline solids.[6] It emerges from the quantization of the lattice displacement field of a classical dislocation
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Doublon
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Paired electrons in the same lattice site[7][8][9]
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electrons
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Dropleton
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The first known quasiparticle that behaves like a liquid[10]
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Duon
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Quasiparticle made of two particles coupled by hydrodynamic forces. These classical quasiparticles were observed as the elementary excitations in a 2D colloidal crystal driven by viscous flow.[11]
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Electron quasiparticle
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An electron as affected by the other forces and interactions in the solid
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electron
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Electron hole (hole)
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A lack of electron in a valence band
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crystal lattice
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Exciton
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A bound state of an electron and a hole (See also: biexciton)
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electron, hole
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Exciton-polariton
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A bound state of an exciton and a photon.
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photon, exciton
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Ferron
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A quasiparticle that carries heat and polarization, akin to phonon and magnons.[12][13]
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Fracton
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A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure.
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Fracton (subdimensional particle)
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An emergent quasiparticle excitation that is immobile when in isolation.
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Helical Dirac fermion
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Dirac electron with spin locked to its translational momentum.
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Dirac electron
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Holon (chargon)
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A quasi-particle resulting from electron spin-charge separation
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electron
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Hopfion
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A topological soliton. 3D counterpart of 2D magnetic skyrmion.
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Intersubband polariton
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Dipolar allowed optical excitations between the quantized electronic energy levels within the conduction band of semiconductor heterostructures.
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photon
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Leviton
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A collective excitation of a single electron within a metal
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Magnetic monopole
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Arise in condensed matter systems such as spin ice and carry an effective magnetic charge as well as being endowed with other typical quasiparticle properties such as an effective mass.
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Magnetic skyrmion
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Statically stable solitons which appear in magnetic materials. In 3D these are sometimes called hopfions.
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Magnon
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A coherent excitation of electron spins in a material
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Majorana fermion
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A quasiparticle equal to its own antiparticle, emerging as a midgap state in certain superconductors
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Nematicon
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A soliton in nematic liquid-crystal media
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Orbiton[14]
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A quasiparticle resulting from electron spin–orbital separation
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Oscillon
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A soliton-like single wave in vibrating media
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Pines' demon
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Collective excitation of electrons which corresponds to electrons in different energy bands moving out of phase with each other. Named after David Pines
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electrons
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Phason
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Vibrational modes in a quasicrystal associated with atomic rearrangements
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crystal lattice
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Phoniton
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A theoretical quasiparticle which is a hybridization of a localized, long-living phonon and a matter excitation[15]
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phonon
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Phonon
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Vibrational modes in a crystal lattice associated with atomic shifts
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crystal lattice
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Phonon polariton
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A coupling between phonon and photons.
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optical phonon, photon
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Plasmariton
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Coupled optical phonon and dressed photon consisting of a plasmon and photon.
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plasmon, photon
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Plasmaron
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A quasiparticle emerging from the coupling between a plasmon and a hole
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plasmon, hole
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Plasmon
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A coherent excitation of a plasma
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electron
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Plexciton
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Coupling plasmons with excitons
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Polaron
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A moving charged quasiparticle that is surrounded by ions in a material
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electron, phonon
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Polariton
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A mixture of photon with other quasiparticles
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photon, optical phonon
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Relaxon
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A collective phonon excitation[16]
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Phonon
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Rydberg polaron
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Polarons in ensembles of Rydberg atoms and Bose–Einstein condensates.
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Rydberg atom
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Roton
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Collective excitation associated with the rotation of a fluid (often a superfluid). It is a quantum of a vortex.
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Semi-Dirac electron
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Particle with zero mass gap in one direction of space.
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electron
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Surface magnon polariton
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Coupling between spin waves and electromagnetic waves.
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magnon, photon
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Surface phonon
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Vibrational modes in a crystal lattice associated with atomic shifts at the surface.
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Surface plasmon
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A coherent excitation of a plasma at the surface of a metal.
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Surface plasmon polariton
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Coupling between surface plasmons and electromagnetic waves.
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Surface plasmon, photon
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Soliton
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A self-reinforcing solitary excitation wave
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Spinon
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A quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin–charge separation that can form both quantum spin liquid and strongly correlated quantum spin liquid
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TI-polaron
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Translational invariant polaron
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polaron
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Trion
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A coherent excitation of three quasiparticles (two holes and one electron or two electrons and one hole)
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electron, hole
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Triplon
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A quasiparticle formed from electrons with triplet state pairing[17][18]
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electron
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Wrinklon
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A localized excitation corresponding to wrinkles in a constrained two dimensional system[19][20]
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Weyl electrons
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In Weyl semimetals, electrons behave as massless, following the Weyl equation.
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electron
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