#dropleton

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New State of Matter Discovered

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There was a time when states of matter were simple: Solid, liquid, gas. Then came plasma, Bose -Einstein condensate, supercritical fluid and more. Now the list has grown by one more, with the unexpected discovery of a new state dubbed “dropletons” that bear some resemblance to liquids but occur under very different circumstances. The discovery occurred when a team at the University of Colorado Joint Institute for Lab Astrophysics were focusing laser light on gallium arsenide (GaAs) to create excitons. Click the link to read more...

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Dropleton

When you can't FIND new particles, you make them. "Called a dropleton or quantum droplet, the newly created "particle" is actually a short-lived cluster of electrons and positive charges called "holes." Like other so-called quasiparticles, dropletons act like single particles."  Image Credit: Brad Baxley

What exactly this means I'm not sure, exotic new materials in the future? 

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Scientists discover new quasiparticle called a "quantum droplet" or "dropleton"

Scientists discover new quasiparticle called a “quantum droplet” or “dropleton”

Photograph by Tom Blackwell

JILA physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a new semiconductor quasiparticle called a “quantum droplet” or “dropleton”.

Quasiparticles are groups of smaller particles that act together in a predictable way, and in the dropleton the particles briefly condense into a liquid-like…

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