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- noun physics One of three kinds of
quasiparticle (the others being theholon andorbiton ) thatelectrons insolids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero.
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spin + -on
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The observations of spinon confinement were made at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom by an international team of physicists.
Nano Tech Wire 2009
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The observations of spinon confinement were made at the Science and Technology Facilities Councils Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom by an international team of physicists.
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Most ladders studied so far cannot illustrate this process because the large strength of their interchain coupling suppresses the spinon excitations at all energy scales.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Bella Lake 2009
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