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This is a list of quasiparticles.
| Quasiparticle | Signification | Underlying particles |
|---|---|---|
| Anyon | A type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than fermions and bosons. | |
| Biexciton | A bound state of two free excitons | |
| Bion | A bound state of solitons, named for Born–Infeld model | soliton |
| Cooper pair | A bound pair of two electrons | electron |
| Bipolaron | A bound pair of two polarons | polaron (electron, phonon) |
| Bogoliubon | Broken Cooper pair | electron, hole |
| Configuron[1] | An elementary configurational excitation in an amorphous material which involves breaking of a chemical bond | |
| Dislon | A localized collective excitation associated with a dislocation in crystalline solids.[2] It emerges from the quantization of the lattice displacement field of a classical dislocation | |
| Doublon | Paired electrons in the same lattice site[3][4][5] | electrons |
| Dropleton | The first known quasiparticle that behaves like a liquid[6] | |
| Electron quasiparticle | An electron as affected by the other forces and interactions in the solid | electron |
| Electron hole (hole) | A lack of electron in a valence band | electron, cation |
| Exciton | A bound state of an electron and a hole (See also: biexciton) | electron, hole |
| Ferron | A quasiparticle that carries heat and polarization, akin to phonon and magnons.[7][8] | |
| Fracton | A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure. | |
| Fracton (subdimensional particle) | An emergent quasiparticle excitation that is immobile when in isolation. | |
| Holon (chargon) | A quasi-particle resulting from electron spin-charge separation | |
| Hopfion | A topological soliton | |
| Leviton | A collective excitation of a single electron within a metal | |
| Magnon | A coherent excitation of electron spins in a material | |
| Majorana fermion | A quasiparticle equal to its own antiparticle, emerging as a midgap state in certain superconductors | |
| Nematicon | A soliton in nematic liquid-crystal media | |
| Orbiton[9] | A quasiparticle resulting from electron spin–orbital separation | |
| Oscillon | A soliton-like single wave in vibrating media | |
| Phason | Vibrational modes in a quasicrystal associated with atomic rearrangements | |
| Phoniton | A theoretical quasiparticle which is a hybridization of a localized, long-living phonon and a matter excitation[10] | |
| Phonon | Vibrational modes in a crystal lattice associated with atomic shifts | |
| Plasmaron | A quasiparticle emerging from the coupling between a plasmon and a hole | |
| Plasmon | A coherent excitation of a plasma | |
| Polaron | A moving charged quasiparticle that is surrounded by ions in a material | electron, phonon |
| Polariton | A mixture of photon with other quasiparticles | photon, optical phonon |
| Relaxon | A collective phonon excitation[11] | Phonon |
| Roton | Elementary excitation in superfluid helium-4 | |
| Soliton | A self-reinforcing solitary excitation wave | |
| Spinon | A quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin–charge separation that can form both quantum spin liquid and strongly correlated quantum spin liquid | |
| Trion | A coherent excitation of three quasiparticles (two holes and one electron or two electrons and one hole) | |
| Triplon | A quasiparticle formed from electrons with triplet state pairing[12][13] | triplet state electrons |
| Wrinklon | A localized excitation corresponding to wrinkles in a constrained two dimensional system[14][15] |
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