Superphoton

Quick meaning: Superphoton is a noun meaning (rare, physics, figurative) A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.

Meaning

(rare, physics, figurative) A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.

Example Sentences

Similar difficulties arise if instead of three “photons” we imagine a single “superphoton” that responds to the numerical sum of all the colour charges.

However, according to the principles of the General Relativity Theory, Sanger’s superphoton man cannot materially exist by lives in a world which has no relation to ours.

Without mentioning Lemaitre, Haldane pictured the universe as originating from one or a few such superphotons of almost infinite energy and sketched from this assumption the entire evolutionary history of matter and life.

Word Forms

• superphotons
• super-photon

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