Tuesday, 29 September 2020

quantum mechanics - What is the difference between a photon and a phonon?


More specifically, how does a wave-particle duality differ from a quasiparticle/collective excitation?



What makes a photon a gauge boson and a phonon a Nambu–Goldstone boson?




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