Talk:Holon (physics)
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Accepted theory?
[edit]Is this really an accepted theory or more of a speculative thing? Is it just another name for tunneling? Did the underlying math have to be modified, or is it rather a description of particular kinds of solutions, modes, lumps or resonances within the existing theory? More detail would be welcome to help dispel these doubts. 84.227.20.67 (talk) 15:39, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
- I was unaware of this too, believing the electron to be a straightforward elementary particle.
- It seems to have been confirmed; the first authoritative-looking account I found is this (from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory):
- https://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ALS-spinons-holons.html
- This predates the work referenced in the article by several years. I'm still unclear on whether this phenomenon is only supposed to occur in many-body systems confined to a lattice, or whether it is believed that an individual electron is separable in principle. I don't have time right now to dig into this though.
- Peskydan (talk) 00:58, 30 November 2022 (UTC)