quasiparticle

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Researchers at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University created this framework to explain how quasiparticles form and to link two quantum states that were previously thought to be incompatible.

From Science Daily

The electron and hole remain linked as a short-lived quasiparticle until the electron falls back and emits light.

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"The material fluctuates between two different states, as if it cannot decide which one it wants to adopt. In this fluctuating regime, the quasiparticle picture is thought to lose its meaning."

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While this study focused on plasmons, the new chip-scale THz spectroscope could detect other types of quasiparticles oscillating in many different 2D materials.

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This new state of matter called the Majorana zero mode is made up of quasiparticles, which act as their own particle and antiparticle.

From Salon