Equation 26 · Part 2 · Every Crystal Has Its Own Speed of Light
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Graphene sits at the top of the census not because its electrons move fast in any absolute sense — three million metres per second is still a tenth of a percent of the vacuum speed of light — but because their low-energy behaviour is relativistic in form rather than merely in name. Near the point where graphene’s conduction and valence bands touch, its electrons obey a two-dimensional version of the massless Dirac equation, with the Fermi velocity standing in for c . Mikhail Katsnelson, Konstantin Novoselov, and Andre Geim used that fact in 2006 to predict something the vacuum makes almost impossible to see: a chiral, massless particle hitting an electrostatic barrier head-on tunnels…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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