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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Q (“charge”) + ball, coined by physicist Sidney Coleman.
In physics, charge is often represented by the letter Q, and the soliton is spherically symmetric.
Noun
Q-ball (plural Q-balls)
- A charged soliton that represents the lowest possible energy state of its components and is therefore stable.
2001, Tuomas Multamäki, “Q-ball Collisions in the MSSM”, in Strong and Electroweak Matter 2000, page 348:Q-ball collisions are studied numerically on a two dimensional lattice for a range of Q-ball charges.
2008, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009, page 880:If you're going to fly inside Mercury's orbit and hurl a bomb into the sun to burst its Q-ball (non-topological soliton) into pieces, I suggest that home may require a theoretical solution.
2009, Noah Graham, Markus Quandt, Herbert Weigel, Specral Methods in Quantum Field Theory, page 171:A complex scalar theory in three dimensions with a cubic coupling can support classically stable, time-dependent, non-topological solutions to the equations of motion that carry a global charge Q, called Q-balls.
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Etymology 2
Noun
Q-ball
- (slang) An illicit drug made up from quetiapine and cocaine.