Magnon
Spin 1 quasiparticle; quantum of a spin wave / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Magnon (disambiguation).
A magnon is a quasiparticle, a collective excitation of the spin structure of an electron in a crystal lattice. In the equivalent wave picture of quantum mechanics, a magnon can be viewed as a quantized spin wave. Magnons carry a fixed amount of energy and lattice momentum, and are spin-1, indicating they obey boson behavior.