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Old December 11th, 2017 #1
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Default Physicists Prove Existence of New Form of Matter: Excitonium

Physicists Prove Existence of New Form of Matter: Excitonium



Artist’s depiction of the collective excitons of an excitonic solid. These excitations can be thought of as propagating domain walls (yellow) in an otherwise ordered solid exciton background (blue).

Excitonium is a condensate — it exhibits macroscopic quantum phenomena, like a superconductor, or superfluid, or insulating electronic crystal.

It’s made up of excitons, particles that are formed in a very strange quantum mechanical pairing, namely that of an escaped electron and the hole it left behind.

http://www.sci-news.com/physics/excitonium-05520.html
 
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