superphoton

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Etymology

super- +‎ photon

Noun

superphoton (plural superphotons)

  1. (rare, physics, figurative) A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.
    • 1966, Arthur Charles Clarke, Congressional Record 1966-08-01: Volume 112‎, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 4060:
      However, according to the principles of the General Relativity Theory, Sanger’s superphoton man cannot materially exist by lives in a world which has no relation to ours.
    • 1987, Frank Wilczek, Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics‎, Norton, →ISBN, page 201:
      Similar difficulties arise if instead of three “photons” we imagine a single “superphoton” that responds to the numerical sum of all the colour charges.
    • 1999, Helge Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe‎, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
      Without mentioning Lemaitre, Haldane pictured the universe as originating from one or a few such superphotons of almost infinite energy and sketched from this assumption the entire evolutionary history of matter and life.

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