How to Use phonon in a Sentence

phonon

noun

• The researchers were looking for the coupling between electrons and a type of sound wave, called a phonon.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
• Both the nanopillars and the silicon membrane host phonons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• The presence of phonons, of course, affects those lattices’s dipole moments as well.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
• But the qubit is way too sensitive to tiny vibrations called phonons.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
• In silicon, electrons have to emit a photon and a sound vibration (a phonon) at the same time to reach the valence band.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 22 July 2019
• These phonons create feedback in the form of tiny acoustic waves, which in turn interrupt the original light waves.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
• This means detecting one phonon as having been transmitted or reflected forces the other phonon to be in the same state.
  — Andrew N. Cleland, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• The energy from these bounces create tiny vibrations known as phonons.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
• When a group of atomic nuclei vibrate, their collective excitation is instead called a phonon.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
• The bead can hold units of vibrational energy called phonons, which behave somewhat analogously to photons.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
• But some physicists see advantages to replacing the microwave resonator with a mechanical one that rings with quantized vibrations, or phonons.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• Another major source of phonons, collisions with air molecules, was reduced by pulling a vacuum.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
• One of the things that encourages Cooper pair formation is a high-frequency vibration (called a phonon) among the atomic nuclei that these electrons are associated with.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
• In quantum entanglement, each phonon is in a superposition of reflected and transmitted, but the two phonons are locked together.
  — Andrew N. Cleland, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• Here on Earth, heat flow is often more intimate, taking place via direct contact between materials and helped along by the wavelike collective vibrations of atoms known as phonons.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2019
• Sound is a mechanical oscillation made up of quasiparticles known as phonons.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
• Steinhauer reasoned that his analogue system should also emit the equivalent of Hawking radiation, complete with entangled phonons.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 May 2019
• In solid materials, these vibrations travel as quasiparticles known as phonons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• So to achieve superconductivity, electrons need to easily generate and absorb phonons.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
• Finally, Steinhauer measured quantum entanglement between pairs of phonons on either side of this horizon, consistent with sonic Hawking radiation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2016
• Called the quantum phonon, this subatomic acoustical wave can be detected only by intricate instruments that distinguish pure silence from its smallest possible deviation.
  — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2012
• Early methods involved converting phonons to electricity in quantum circuits called superconducting qubits.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
• Until recently, scientists lacked this ability; just detecting an individual phonon destroyed it.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024