How to Use phonon in a Sentence
phonon
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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
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Both the nanopillars and the silicon membrane host phonons.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
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The presence of phonons, of course, affects those lattices’s dipole moments as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
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But the qubit is way too sensitive to tiny vibrations called phonons.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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The energy from these bounces create tiny vibrations known as phonons.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
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When a group of atomic nuclei vibrate, their collective excitation is instead called a phonon.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
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The bead can hold units of vibrational energy called phonons, which behave somewhat analogously to photons.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
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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
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Another major source of phonons, collisions with air molecules, was reduced by pulling a vacuum.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Sound is a mechanical oscillation made up of quasiparticles known as phonons.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
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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
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In solid materials, these vibrations travel as quasiparticles known as phonons.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
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So to achieve superconductivity, electrons need to easily generate and absorb phonons.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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Early methods involved converting phonons to electricity in quantum circuits called superconducting qubits.
—Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
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Until recently, scientists lacked this ability; just detecting an individual phonon destroyed it.
—Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
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