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- noun Plural form of
phonon .
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Examples
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And, in analogy to light, we can speak of minimum quanta of sound energy, which we call phonons.
Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011
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These vibrations are called phonons, since they can be thought of -- and mathematically treated -- as "sound particles".
Still nothing detected x00c5;ka 2008
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These vibrations are called phonons, since they can be thought of -- and mathematically treated -- as "sound particles".
Archive 2008-02-01 x00c5;ka 2008
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Just as electromagnetic energy travels in discrete bundles known as photons, mechanical energy in solids and other dense systems is carried in packets known as phonons.
Ars Technica Matthew Francis 2012
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Atoms on a crystalline film move in a manner similar to Brownian particles, since the vibrations of the underlying crystal, called phonons, tend to jostle them about.
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Atoms on a crystalline film move in a manner similar to Brownian particles, since the vibrations of the underlying crystal, called phonons, tend to jostle them about.
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Atoms on a crystalline film move in a manner similar to Brownian particles, since the vibrations of the underlying crystal, called phonons, tend to jostle them about.
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They proposed that the differences in surface pressure were caused by equally tiny variations in the way individual packets (or quanta) of vibrational energy, known as phonons, reflect from the film interfaces.
unknown title 2009
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They proposed that the differences in surface pressure were caused by equally tiny variations in the way individual packets (or quanta) of vibrational energy, known as phonons, reflect from the film interfaces.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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When the vibrations in a crystalline solid are so quantized, one obtains elementary modes of excitation called 'phonons'.
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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The very quietest sounds of all consist of individual — and indivisible — phonons.
Physicists split bits of sound using quantum mechanics E-mail 2023
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