"Weyl fermion" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Weyl fermions [plural]
Etymology: After Hermann Weyl, the person who proposed this fermion. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Weyl fermion (plural Weyl fermions)
  1. (electronics, quantum mechanics) 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. Wikipedia link: Weyl fermion, en:Hermann Weyl Categories (topical): Electronics, Quantum mechanics

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