bogolon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A collective excitation, in a Bose-Einstein condensate, that has some characteristics of a particle.

Word forms

bogolon bogolons

Etymology

The idea of this quasiparticle was introduced by Nikolay Bogolyubov in 1947, after whom it was named.

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