How to Use fermion in a Sentence

fermion

noun
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  • Those blocks can be divided into two basic clans: fermions and bosons.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Every species of quarticle is either a boson or fermion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Pauli postulated that fermion particles like protons, electrons, and neutrons with the same quantum state could not exist in the same space.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Any two fermions that are within touching distance of each other must be different.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Supersymmetry says that every boson (one of two types of particle) has a partner fermion (the other type), and vice versa.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
  • If a fermion orbits another fermion, its quantum state remains unchanged.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Physicists are also reassessing particle flavor, a quantum property that defines the species of fermion: up quark, down quark, electron, muon, and so on.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Familiar constituents of matter like electrons and quarks fall into the group known as fermions; while those that carry fundamental forces like photons, the particles of light that convey the force of electromagnetism, are known as bosons.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • This idea bridges two categories of particles—bosons, which can be packed together in large numbers, and fermions, which are antisocial and will share space only with particles of opposite spin.
    — Marcela Carena, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Microsoft is taking yet another tack, trying to twist elusive subatomic particles called Majorana fermions into a braided shape that would keep qubits in a quantum state longer.
    — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Supersymmetry hypothesizes an as-yet-undiscovered boson partner for every fermion, and a fermion partner for each boson.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The quasiparticles produced here, called Majorana fermions, are their own antimatter.
    — Shannon Palus, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
  • Very intelligent aliens can achieve quantum computation by exciting the various energy and spin states in this fermion-gravitonic superfluid.
    — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • In this case, the horizontal axis is a scalar mass parameter, and the vertical axis is a fermion mass parameter, in terms of which everything else is determined (within this highly constrained and frankly unrealistic parameterization).
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2011
  • In the early 1970s several researchers independently proposed that bosons and fermions might be related to one another via a fundamental symmetry called supersymmetry.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The distant competitors include asymptotically safe gravity, E8 theory, noncommutative geometry and causal fermion systems.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017

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