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How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?

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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  • Originally Aired December 8, 2022
  • Runtime 17 minutes
  • Production Code le_ORQZzkmE
  • Network YouTube
  • Created December 9, 2022 by
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  • Modified December 19, 2022 by
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