Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical paraparticles could exist in a kind of inbetween. Although technically quasiparticles ...

Now, a team of physicists from Rice University and Max Planck suggests something even more startling: there might be particles that defy the traditional dichotomy of fermions and bosons ...

This is fundamentally different from the behavior of conventional fermions and bosons, offering a new mechanism for quantum computation. The unique properties of Majorana fermions hold great promise ...

These four fundamental forces exist between fermions (quarks and leptons). They arise from the exchange of bosons. Bosons are the 'force carrying' or 'force-mediating' particles. If a fermion ...

After introductory chapters on scalar fields, gauge fields and fermion fields, the book studies quarks and gluons in QCD and fermions and bosons in the electroweak theory. The last chapter is devoted ...

Both superconductivity and superfluidity are the result of quantum condensation — that is, Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of bosons and pair formation of fermions, as described by the theory ...

This condensation occurs because bosons, unlike fermions, do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle and can occupy the same quantum state. The critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation ...