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December 11th, 2017 | #1 |
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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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