Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense glue; could offer a route to smaller, faster electronic devices

https://news.mit.edu/2022/physicists-detect-hybrid-particle-held-together-uniquely-intense-glue-0110

"the hybrid particle is a mashup of an electron and a phonon (a quasiparticle that is produced from a material’s vibrating atoms)... the force binding the electron with the phonon is about 10 times stronger than what’s been estimated for other known electron-phonon hybrids... it could allow you to couple to one of the components and indirectly tune the other, Ilyas says. That way, you could change the properties of a material, like the magnetic state of the system"

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