How to Use fermion in a Sentence

fermion

noun

• If a fermion orbits another fermion, its quantum state remains unchanged.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024