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> Since Pines' Demon is predicted to play an important role in a wide range of phenomena, such as in particular kinds of and , the work has important implications for material .

> Usually in science, a "demon" is a hypothetical opponent for scientists and philosophers to argue against in a thought experiment, but Pines' Demon is quite different.
It's actually a type of – a discrete unit of waves among rippling through a population of electrons . Plasmons have been described as the analogue of an sound in a classical gas.

Have Observed a 'Demon' Plasmon in Strontium Ruthenate
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