How To Discover Weird New Particles | Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles04:33

This 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 –

Semiconductor Holes –

Superconductors –

Quasiparticles –

Heavy Fermions –

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