holon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero.
noun
  1. Something that is both a part and a whole.

Word forms

holon holons

Etymology

From hole + -on.

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