anyon

[ an-yon ]

noun

1. an elementary particle or particle-like excitation having properties intermediate between those of bosons and fermions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anyon¹

First recorded in 1983; any + -on ¹

Example Sentences

You said that anyons are important because their behavior could be used as building blocks for quantum computers.

From Nautilus

With the kind of anyons that have been observed so far, the only thing that’s encoded is how many times they’ve wound around each other.

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OK, to say that I understand anyons would be lying, but I understand a little better than I did before.

From Nautilus

Theoretical physicists have long predicted the existence of anyons, a type of bizarre quasiparticle resulting from the movements of electrons that together behave as a particle.

From Science News

One path looped around other anyons at the device’s center — like a child playing duck, duck, goose with friends — while the other took a direct route.

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