English Explanatory Dictionary

Weyl fermion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A massless quasiparticle and fermion, which carries electric charge, and cannot move backwards, that may exist in Weyl semimetals, where an electron can be split into two Weyl fermions which move in opposite directions, which can form an electron by combining two Weyl fermions.

Word forms

Weyl fermion Weyl fermions

Etymology

After Hermann Weyl, the person who proposed this fermion.

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