rexiJan 10, 2025

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08262-7

(so I've been hunting for an information carrier…)

…a family of exactly solvable #quantumspin models in one and two dimensions, in which free #paraparticles emerge as quasiparticle excitations, and their exchange statistics can be physically observed and are notably distinct from fermions and bosons…the possibility of a new type of #quasiparticle in #condensedmatter systems and—more speculatively—the potential for previously unconsidered types of #elementaryparticle.

Particle exchange statistics beyond fermions and bosons - Nature

By developing a second quantization of paraparticles and constructing exactly solvable quantum spin models with emergent paraparticles, new theoretical evidence shows that non-trivial parastatistics inequivalent to either fermions or bosons can exist in physical systems.

Nature
The Story of Little wDec 24, 2022
Little w is an #elementaryparticle and an interesting #person. They prefer pronouns #theythem and have far lower mass than a #W #boson. The #standardmodel of particle physics doesn’t have an a priori reason for elementary particle #masses, and the standard model of most humans doesn’t allow more than two #genders.
TimjanNov 22, 2022

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-particles-arent-spinning-so-where-does-their-spin-come-from/

Makes me wonder... In what way does it even make sense to talk about an #ElementaryParticle's size, as in diameter, given Heisenberg? If an electron had a physical size, say a diameter, how would we define that?

/me apparently stopped studying #physics and #QuantumMechanics too soon / too long ago.

Quantum Particles Aren’t Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From?

A new proposal seeks to solve the paradox of quantum spin

Scientific American