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According to this article an electron can be split into 3 quasiparticles:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/nature10974.html
My questions:
1- What are these mentioned quasiparticles? And how do they work?! a particle that carries spin separately and another one carrying the location, I cannot understand how this works!
2- Are these real particles or just separated quantum properties (which is even weirder explanation)? In the article it is mentioned that these particles can move in different direction and speed.
3- Is the electron still a fundamental particle?
4- Are there new research advancements on this subject?
- ‘holon’ carrying the electron’s charge
- ‘spinon’ carrying its spin
- ‘orbiton’ carrying its orbital location
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/nature10974.html
My questions:
1- What are these mentioned quasiparticles? And how do they work?! a particle that carries spin separately and another one carrying the location, I cannot understand how this works!
2- Are these real particles or just separated quantum properties (which is even weirder explanation)? In the article it is mentioned that these particles can move in different direction and speed.
3- Is the electron still a fundamental particle?
4- Are there new research advancements on this subject?
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