polaron 1

noundomain: natural obj.
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a quasiparticle composed of a charge and its accompanying polarization field.

  • 1.The polaron, a fermionic quasiparticle, should not be confused with the polariton, a bosonic quasiparticle analogous to a hybridized state between a photon and an optical phonon.
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