Quasiparticles help physicists make sense of the world
Tangible products—like a solar-powered hearing aid—may come from not-so-real particles
NOT-SO-REAL PARTICLES Liquidlike particle clusters called dropletons, illustrated here, are a type of quasiparticle.
Courtesy of the Cundiff group and Brad Baxley/jila
Steven Cundiff wasn’t sure what would happen when he fired a laser at a target last year.