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."
(Score: 1) by waximius on Monday March 03 2014, @05:05PM
Aha! The shut down of Mt Gox makes perfect sense... not only does Uncle Sam want to control the flow of money, but he wants control over matter as well! Bastard...oh. no. I think I misread something somewhere