A leviton is a collective excitation of a single electron within a metal.
[1][2][3][4] It has been mostly studied in two-dimensional electron gases alongside quantum point contacts.
The main feature is that the excitation produces an electron pulse without the creation of electron holes.
[5][6] The leviton is named after Leonid Levitov, who first predicted its existence in 1996.
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