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Looking for ghost particles in a frustrated world
In some of the many types of objects and events involving electrons, it is helpful to think that these particles are made up of three smaller particles, called spinons, holons and orbitons. Physicists call these supposedly imaginary particles quasiparticles. By … Continue reading
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Tagged ferromagnets, holons, orbitons, quantum spin liquid, quasiparticles, ruthenium chloride, Shubnikov-de Haas effect, spinons, thermal conductivity, thermal Hall effect
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