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Twisted particles could give physics a new trend Dmitry Karlovets, а TSU physicist, mathematically proved that twisted particles retain an unusual quantum state and exhibit wave properties when reaching high speeds, while ordinary particles do not exhibit wave properties. These calculations, in an experiment at a modern collider, could lead to a new trend at the intersection of particle physics, accelerator physics, and quantum optics. An article about the study was published in the New Journal of Physics. Electrons, neutrons, photons, and other elementary particles can, under some conditions, exhibit the properties of waves, and under others, can exhibit the properties of particles. This phenomenon is called wave-particle duality. Under normal conditions, an electron exhibits wave properties only at low energies. So as a particle it can be considered only at high energies. However, relatively recently, physicists have learned to twist electrons and neutrons, from whi