UNBC assistant professor makes groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum physics
PRINCE GEORGE—A Physics professor at UNBC was part of a team of researchers who discovered something that was thought to not exist. In their paper titled “Experimental observation of repulsively bound magnons”, which was published in the journal Nature, they found that objects in a solid compound can be bound together despite repelling eachother. But what is a magnon?
“You can think of it as, like the needle of a compass. And then, you can think that some times that the needle can be in the wrong direction,” explains UNBC physics assistant professor Dr. Jean-Sébastien Bernier. “Let’s say that you have a lot of these needles and one is in the wrong direction. So, that would form a magnon.”