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List of quasiparticles

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This is a list of quasiparticles and collective excitations used in condensed matter physics.

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Quasiparticles
Quasiparticle Signification Underlying particles
Angulon Used to describe the rotation of molecules in solvents. First postulated theoretically in 2015,[1] the existence of the angulon was confirmed in February 2017, after a series of experiments spanning 20 years. Heavy and light species of molecules were found to rotate inside superfluid helium droplets, in good agreement with the angulon theory.[2][3]
Anyon A type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than fermions and bosons. exciton
Biexciton A bound state of two free excitons
Bion A bound state of solitons, named for Born–Infeld model soliton
Bipolaron A bound pair of two polarons polaron
Bogoliubon Broken Cooper pair electron, hole
Composite fermion Arise in a two-dimensional system subject to a large magnetic field, most famously those systems that exhibit the fractional quantum Hall effect.[4] electron
Configuron[5] An elementary configurational excitation in an amorphous material which involves breaking of a chemical bond
Cooper pair A bound pair of two electrons electron
Dirac electron Electrons in graphene behave as relativistic massless Dirac fermions electron
Dislon A localized collective excitation associated with a dislocation in crystalline solids.[6] It emerges from the quantization of the lattice displacement field of a classical dislocation
Doublon Paired electrons in the same lattice site[7][8][9] electrons
Dropleton The first known quasiparticle that behaves like a liquid[10]
Duon Quasiparticle made of two particles coupled by hydrodynamic forces. These classical quasiparticles were observed as the elementary excitations in a 2D colloidal crystal driven by viscous flow.[11]
Electron quasiparticle An electron as affected by the other forces and interactions in the solid electron
Electron hole (hole) A lack of electron in a valence band crystal lattice
Exciton A bound state of an electron and a hole (See also: biexciton) electron, hole
Exciton-polariton A bound state of an exciton and a photon. photon, exciton
Ferron A quasiparticle that carries heat and polarization, akin to phonon and magnons.[12][13]
Fracton A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure.
Fracton (subdimensional particle) An emergent quasiparticle excitation that is immobile when in isolation.
Helical Dirac fermion Dirac electron with spin locked to its translational momentum. Dirac electron
Holon (chargon) A quasi-particle resulting from electron spin-charge separation electron
Hopfion A topological soliton. 3D counterpart of 2D magnetic skyrmion.
Intersubband polariton Dipolar allowed optical excitations between the quantized electronic energy levels within the conduction band of semiconductor heterostructures. photon
Leviton A collective excitation of a single electron within a metal
Magnetic monopole Arise in condensed matter systems such as spin ice and carry an effective magnetic charge as well as being endowed with other typical quasiparticle properties such as an effective mass.
Magnetic skyrmion Statically stable solitons which appear in magnetic materials. In 3D these are sometimes called hopfions.
Magnon A coherent excitation of electron spins in a material
Majorana fermion A quasiparticle equal to its own antiparticle, emerging as a midgap state in certain superconductors
Nematicon A soliton in nematic liquid-crystal media
Orbiton[14] A quasiparticle resulting from electron spin–orbital separation
Oscillon A soliton-like single wave in vibrating media
Pines' demon Collective excitation of electrons which corresponds to electrons in different energy bands moving out of phase with each other. Named after David Pines electrons
Phason Vibrational modes in a quasicrystal associated with atomic rearrangements crystal lattice
Phoniton A theoretical quasiparticle which is a hybridization of a localized, long-living phonon and a matter excitation[15] phonon
Phonon Vibrational modes in a crystal lattice associated with atomic shifts crystal lattice
Phonon polariton A coupling between phonon and photons. optical phonon, photon
Plasmariton Coupled optical phonon and dressed photon consisting of a plasmon and photon. plasmon, photon
Plasmaron A quasiparticle emerging from the coupling between a plasmon and a hole plasmon, hole
Plasmon A coherent excitation of a plasma electron
Plexciton Coupling plasmons with excitons
Polaron A moving charged quasiparticle that is surrounded by ions in a material electron, phonon
Polariton A mixture of photon with other quasiparticles photon, optical phonon
Relaxon A collective phonon excitation[16] Phonon
Rydberg polaron Polarons in ensembles of Rydberg atoms and Bose–Einstein condensates. Rydberg atom
Roton Collective excitation associated with the rotation of a fluid (often a superfluid). It is a quantum of a vortex.
Semi-Dirac electron Particle with zero mass gap in one direction of space. electron
Surface magnon polariton Coupling between spin waves and electromagnetic waves. magnon, photon
Surface phonon Vibrational modes in a crystal lattice associated with atomic shifts at the surface.
Surface plasmon A coherent excitation of a plasma at the surface of a metal.
Surface plasmon polariton Coupling between surface plasmons and electromagnetic waves. Surface plasmon, photon
Soliton A self-reinforcing solitary excitation wave
Spinon A quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin–charge separation that can form both quantum spin liquid and strongly correlated quantum spin liquid
TI-polaron Translational invariant polaron polaron
Trion A coherent excitation of three quasiparticles (two holes and one electron or two electrons and one hole) electron, hole
Triplon A quasiparticle formed from electrons with triplet state pairing[17][18] electron
Wrinklon A localized excitation corresponding to wrinkles in a constrained two dimensional system[19][20]
Weyl electrons In Weyl semimetals, electrons behave as massless, following the Weyl equation. electron

References

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