In the field of quantum physics, you might call this a droplet in the bucket.
Physicists in Germany and the United States say they have discovered an exotic new type of particle that they call a quantum droplet, or dropleton.
Writing in the journal Nature, they said it behaves a bit like a liquid droplet and described it as a quasi-particle — an amalgamation of smaller types of particles.
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