How Are Quasiparticles Separate From Particles?
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How Are Quasiparticles Separate From Particles?

C2ProficientOctober 31, 202620 min
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  • Science

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Thank you to MagellanTV for supporting PBS. The device you're watching this video on is best understood by thinking about positive and negative charges moving around a circuit of diodes and transistors. But the only elementary particle actually flowing in that circuit are the negatively

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charged electrons. And yet those flowing positive charges are there, in the form of a particle you may have never heard of. Your device works because of quasiparticles.

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A class of strange emergent behaviors of nature that enable our most important technologies and are behind some of the weirdest phenomena that we have ever encountered. Let's begin our discussion of quasiparticles by talking about the particular quasiparticle that lets me talk to you about quasiparticles right now.

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