How To Discover Weird New Particles | Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles
24,516This video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe.
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More info about the physics of weird materials:
The Higgs Boson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uh5mTxRQcg
Semiconductor Holes - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Chenming-Hu_ch1.pdf
Superconductors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity
Quasiparticles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
Heavy Fermions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fermion
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