bogolon
Meanings
noun
- A collective excitation, in a Bose-Einstein condensate, that has some characteristics of a particle.
Word forms
Etymology
The idea of this quasiparticle was introduced by Nikolay Bogolyubov in 1947, after whom it was named.
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