How to Use quasiparticle in a Sentence

quasiparticle

noun
  • There is no better demonstration of that than the world of quasiparticles.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2018
  • One possibility is a type of neutral quasiparticle known as a spinon, which carries spin and not charge.
    — Maggie McKee, WIRED, 24 June 2016
  • The secret to its speed lies the behavior of phonons, quasiparticles formed from vibrations in a solid.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2023
  • From quasiparticle to qubit On their own, the Majorana zero modes aren't usable as qubits.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
  • If the quasiparticle picture continues to crumble, what could replace it?
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Sound is a mechanical oscillation made up of quasiparticles known as phonons.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
  • These quasiparticles are capable of ballistic, or scatter-free, flow.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The most prominent quasiparticle is probably the Cooper pair, in which two electrons are paired in a way that alters their behavior.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
  • That the two halves of an MZM quasiparticle can fuse into nothing — an empty vacuum — accounts for their name.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile in the lab, as physicists push novel materials to new extremes, the quasiparticle zoo has grown quickly and become more and more exotic.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
  • These findings suggest that electricity may indeed not exist as distinct quasiparticles in strange metals.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Those chunks are normally Landau’s electron-like quasiparticles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In solid materials, these vibrations travel as quasiparticles known as phonons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In conventional metals, electric current flows in the form of quasiparticles—ripples that move inside lattices of atoms much like particles zipping through space.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But a new development harnesses a long-elusive quasiparticle whose behaviors might be bent to suit the most pressing needs of the perpetually finicky qubit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2023
  • Electron-like quasiparticles became the standard way of understanding metals.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Electron-like quasiparticles became the standard way of understanding metals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The quasiparticles produced here, called Majorana fermions, are their own antimatter.
    — Shannon Palus, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
  • And now that two separate groups have created the quasiparticles in the wild, each team is eager to develop its own suite of quantum computational tools around these new quasiparticles.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2023
  • Now the scientists have discovered the first experimental evidence the ferron exists, and that this quasiparticle can indeed carry heat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The Department of Energy explained that braiding involves one quasiparticle looping around the other.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 May 2023
  • In solid materials, these vibrations travel in quanta of lattice vibrations (sometimes also called quasiparticles) known as phonons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Similar quasiparticles known as magnons can influence magnetic poles in magnetic materials.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Wilczek has previously coined terms like axions, anyons (quasiparticles that may be useful for quantum computing) and time crystals (structures that move in regular and repeating patterns without using energy).
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Light in these materials is so strongly linked to material vibrations that the two form a single quasiparticle—a polariton—in which light and matter are strongly intertwined, offering an exciting platform for quantum technologies.
    — Andrea Alù, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
  • As a quasiparticle in a topological superconductor, the Majorana would have superpowers useful for quantum computing.
    — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
  • The quasiparticles, a concept the Department of Energy says helps scientists describe the patterns that emerge when subatomic particles interact in huge numbers, are collective excitations of many electrons in solid devices.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 May 2023

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