How to Use fermion in a Sentence

fermion

noun
  • The group worked out a new set of rules for curves that can accommodate certain toy fermions.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The group worked out a new set of rules (opens a new tab) for curves that can accommodate certain toy fermions.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • There, the buses are fermions, and always arrive exactly on time.
    — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2010
  • If a fermion orbits another fermion, its quantum state remains unchanged.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Any two fermions that are within touching distance of each other must be different.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
  • But many of the matter particles that make up our world, such as electrons, are fermions, which have half-integer amounts of spin.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The weak nuclear force, meanwhile, is based on weak hypercharge and weak isospin, and all of the fermions possess at least one of them.
    — Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Six quarks, six leptons, and antiparticles comprise the fermions.
    — Big Think, 27 Apr. 2026
  • One of the most fundamental divides separates fermions and bosons.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Pauli postulated that fermion particles like protons, electrons, and neutrons with the same quantum state could not exist in the same space.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Supersymmetry says that every boson (one of two types of particle) has a partner fermion (the other type), and vice versa.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Known as semi-Dirac fermions, particles with this bizarre behavior were first predicted 16 years ago.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Supersymmetry hypothesizes an as-yet-undiscovered boson partner for every fermion, and a fermion partner for each boson.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Promising results Because the potassium atoms are fermions and can not share the same quantum state, the manipulation produced a geometric phase.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This idea bridges two categories of particles—bosons, which can be packed together in large numbers, and fermions, which are antisocial and will share space only with particles of opposite spin.
    — Marcela Carena, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The quasiparticles produced here, called Majorana fermions, are their own antimatter.
    — Shannon Palus, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
  • Restricting one’s view to free fermions involves viewing quantum mechanics through yet another mathematical lens.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This possibility arises from a fundamental difference between bosons and fermions.
    — Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Familiar constituents of matter like electrons and quarks fall into the group known as fermions; while those that carry fundamental forces like photons, the particles of light that convey the force of electromagnetism, are known as bosons.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Very intelligent aliens can achieve quantum computation by exciting the various energy and spin states in this fermion-gravitonic superfluid.
    — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • That one harnesses Majorana fermions to create topological qubits that are designed to store information in a way that’s inherently protected against many types of errors.
    — New Atlas, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Many different materials display this strange metallic behavior, such as cuprates, organic molecular crystals, heavy fermion metals, and twisted bilayer graphene, among others.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The material, known as uranium ditelluride (or UTe2), is an unconventional heavy-fermion superconductor.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • In this case, the horizontal axis is a scalar mass parameter, and the vertical axis is a fermion mass parameter, in terms of which everything else is determined (within this highly constrained and frankly unrealistic parameterization).
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2011
  • In the early 1970s several researchers independently proposed that bosons and fermions might be related to one another via a fundamental symmetry called supersymmetry.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Individual electrons remain fermions.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The distant competitors include asymptotically safe gravity, E8 theory, noncommutative geometry and causal fermion systems.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Back in 1937, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana described a subatomic particle named a Majorana fermion with a unique quantum mechanical state that's resistant to local disturbances.
    — New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2025
  • However, if neutrinos and antineutrinos aren’t Dirac fermions but are actually Majorana particles, then an atomic nucleus that was unstable against double beta decay could actually exhibit two different types of double beta decay.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025

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