User:RedAcer/List of collective excitations
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This is a list of quasiparticles.
Quasiparticle | Signification |
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Bipolaron | A bound pair of two polarons |
Chargon | A quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin-charge separation |
Composite fermion | Bound state of an electron and magnetic flux quanta |
Configuron | An elementary configurational excitation in an amorphous material which involves breaking of a chemical bond |
Electron quasiparticle | An electron as affected by the other forces and interactions in the solid |
Electron hole (hole) | A lack of electron in a valence band |
Exciton | A bound state of an electron and a hole |
Fracton | A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure. |
Holon | A quasi-particle resulting as a result of electron spin-charge separation |
Libron | A quasiparticle associated with the librational motion of molecules in a molecular crystal. |
Magnon | A coherent excitation of electron spins in a material |
Majorana fermion | A quasiparticle equal to its own antiparticle, emerging as a midgap state in certain superconductors |
Phason | Vibrational modes in a quasicrystal associated with atomic rearrangements |
Phonon | Vibrational modes in a crystal lattice associated with atomic shifts |
Plasmon | A coherent excitation of a plasma |
Polaron | A moving charged quasiparticle that is surrounded by ions in a material |
Polariton | A mixture of photon with other quasiparticles |
Roton | Elementary excitation in superfluid Helium-4 |
Soliton | A self-reinforcing solitary excitation wave |
Spinon | A quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin-charge separation |