Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles

Re:Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles by ivalm on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:57PM (#23162971)

Most people have an intuition about particles, they don’t have an intuition for quantum systems.

I wanted to highlight for a general reader that anyons are not particle in the sense of common intuition.

Protons, which the article brings as an example of collective phenomenona, roughly follow a lot of “particle intuition.”

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Re:Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles by state_less on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:13PM (#23163069)

Here is a link to the quasiparticles Wikipedia page that may be helpful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle

Personally, I don’t mind if folks reify these things to make it easier to follow, fwiw.

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Re:Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles by adrianN on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:24AM (#23164050)

I wonder whether we could change school curricula so that people develop an intuition about quantum systems instead. I my schooling I learned almost exclusively particle abstractions. It's only natural that I'm more comfortable with particles.

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Re:Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles by DagAgren on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:32AM (#23166696)

> Most people have an intuition about particles

That intuition is also most likely completely wrong.

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