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Weyl fermions

Weyl fermions is the plural of Weyl fermion.

Meaning of Weyl fermion

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.

Questions about Weyl fermions

What is Weyl fermions the plural of?
Weyl fermions is the plural of Weyl fermion.

Words near Weyl fermions in the dictionary

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

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