Spinon
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spinon is a noun meaning (particle physics) One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the holon 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.
Meaning
(particle physics) One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the holon 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.
Word Forms
- spinons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include holon, eigenspinor, spin, bispinor, multispinor, chargon.
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