1) Concept in physics 2) Quantum
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In physics, quasiparticles and collective excitations (which are closely related) are emergent phenomena that occur when a microscopically complicated system such as a solid behaves as if it contained different weakly interacting particles in free space. For example, as an electron travels through a semiconductor, its motion is disturbed in a comp...
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in physics, a disturbance, in a medium, that behaves as a particle and that may conveniently be regarded as one. A rudimentary analogy is that of a ...
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noun a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle
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an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
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