How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
PBS Space Time · Season 2022 · Episode 33
The device you’re watching this video on is best understood by thinking about positive and negative charges moving around a circuit of diodes and transistors. But the only elementary particle actually flowing in the circuit is the negatively charged electron. And yet those flowing positive charges are there, in the form of a particle you may never have heard of.
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Season
2022
Episode
33
Air Date
08/Dec/2022
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
17 min
Overview
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The device you’re watching this video on is best understood by thinking about positive and negative charges moving around a circuit of diodes and transistors. But the only elementary particle actually flowing in the circuit is the negatively charged electron. And yet those flowing positive charges are there, in the form of a particle you may never have heard of.
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