Discover More: Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense 'glue'

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Physicists detect a 

hybrid particle 

held together by 

uniquely intense 'glue'

Date Posted: 18th January 2022



Physicists detected a hybrid particle that is a combination of an electron and a phonon, 'glued' together with an exceptionally strong bond. It may be possible to tune the two components together, enabling scientists to apply voltage or light to a material to tune not just its electrical properties but also its magnetism.

When two electrons are bound together, they can drift through a material without friction, giving the material special superconducting properties. Such paired electrons, or Cooper pairs, are a kind of hybrid particle - a composite of two particles that behaves as one, with properties that are greater than the sum of its parts.

Now MIT physicists have detected another kind of hybrid particle in an unusual, two-dimensional magnetic material. They determined that the hybrid particle is a mashup of an electron and a phonon (a quasiparticle that is produced from a material's vibrating atoms). 

(Quasiparticles are collections of particles that together have their own particle-like character. In other words, it is a collection of quantum characteristics among particles operating in their own, particle-like way. Unlike electrons, quarks, etc, quasiparticles aren't members of the standard model.)

When they measured the force between the electron and phonon, they found that the glue, or bond, was 10 times stronger than any other electron-phonon hybrid known to date.

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Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2022, January 10). Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense 'glue': The discovery could offer a route to smaller, faster electronic devices. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 17, 2022 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220110184911.htm

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