anyon
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of anyon
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Any particle that obeys a continuum of quantum statistics, only two of which are the standard Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics.
“The anyon concept has been used to describe phenomena in connection with the fractional quantum Hall effect (FOHE).”
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Etymology
From any + -on, since they can have any phase when particles are interchanged. Coined by Frank Wilczek in 1982 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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