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Emergence-Free Duality: Phonons and Vibrating Atoms in Crystalline Solids

Fortin, Sebastian and Pasqualini, Matias (2024) Emergence-Free Duality: Phonons and Vibrating Atoms in Crystalline Solids. [Preprint]

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The crystalline solids admit two models: the one of vibrating atoms and the one of phonons. The model of phonons allows explaining certain properties of crystalline solids that the model of vibrating atoms does not allow. Usually, the model of phonons is assigned a diminished ontological status as quasi-particles. Recently, there has been a proposal to homologate the ontological status of phonons with that of emergent particles, such as photons. In this article, this proposal will be critically examined, and it will be proposed that the model of phonons and the model of vibrating atoms could be considered in ontological parity.

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Fortin, Sebastiansfortin@conicet.gov.ar
Pasqualini, Matiasmatiaspasqualini@gmail.com
Keywords: Emergence; Ontological priority; Phonons; Reduction; Tensor product structures
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User: Dr. Sebastian Fortin
Date Deposited: 17 Mar 2025 16:13
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2025 16:13
Item ID: 24915
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date: 14 July 2024
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24915

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