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Weyl fermion

Weyl fermion noun: 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.

Noun

Weyl fermion (plural Weyl fermions)

  1. (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.

Forms of Weyl fermion

pluralWeyl fermions

Origin of Weyl fermion

After Hermann Weyl, the person who proposed this fermion.

Questions about Weyl fermion

What does Weyl fermion mean?
Weyl fermion means 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.
What part of speech is Weyl fermion?
Weyl fermion is a noun.
What is the plural of Weyl fermion?
The plural of Weyl fermion is Weyl fermions.

Words near Weyl fermion in the dictionary

  1. Weygandts
  2. Weyhill
  3. Weyl
  4. Weyl algebra
  5. Weyl algebras
  6. Weyl fermion
  7. Weyl fermions
  8. Weyl group
  9. Weyl groups
  10. Weyl tensor
  11. Weyl tensors

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