holon

Meanings

Plural: holons

Noun

One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero.
Something that is both a part and a whole.

Origin / Etymology

From hole + -on.

Synonyms

chargon

Scrabble Score: 8

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