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posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 03 2014, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the (sigh)-still-no-Puerto-Ricoton dept.

amblivious writes:

"Researchers investigating the creation of biexcitons noticed an unexpected drop in energy when creating multiple biexcitons in gallium arsenide, leading to the discovery of a new state of matter; the dropleton. Excitons are quasi-particles created when a photon knocks an electron loose from a material, causing an electron hole. If the forces of other charges nearby keep the electron close enough to the hole a state known as an exciton forms where the combined electron and hole act together as though they are a single particle. Biexcitons consist of two of these quasi-particles and collectively behave like a molecule. In this discovery several excitons are behaving together in a 'quantum fog' and behave like a droplet, hence the name.

See the article in Nature for more information."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by ls671 on Monday March 03 2014, @12:27PM

    by ls671 (891) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 03 2014, @12:27PM (#10000) Homepage

    Same here. That tends to prove how easy we can get brainwashed with all that bitcoins hype lately. Well, more precisely, it is a feature of the humain brain; it will try to make something that it doesn't know look like something that it knows.

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