bogolon

See also: Bogolon

English

Etymology

The idea of this quasiparticle was introduced by Nikolay Bogolyubov in 1947, after whom it was named. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bogolon (plural bogolons)

1. (physics) A collective excitation, in a Bose-Einstein condensate, that has some characteristics of a particle.
   • 2015, O. Bleu, D.D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech, “Interacting quantum fluid in a polariton topological insulator”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     At low condensate density, the topology of the single-particle bands is transferred to the bogolon dispersion.