Dilithium here we come!
I'm quasi-excited.
Looks to me like “Scotty - beam me up” may become a reality.
How in the name of Pete did this German physicist Weyl imagine this existed in 1929?
That’s what’s mind boggling - the intelligence and imagination of some of these guys: Newton, Weyl, Einstein, etc. is WAY beyond my comprehension level.
I’ve been waiting a weyl for this.
That means we will have artificial intelligence soon.
We are so screwed.
Democrats have been around a long time.
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I'm starting a betting pool on what the M. stands for.
Any takers?
But can this power the flux capacitor all the way to the year 1985?
Faster computers, faster communications and who knows what will come after these?
“Electrons are the backbone of today’s electronics,”
Electrons are manufactured by scientists in Electoral colleges.
Weyl fermions are what’s known as quasiparticles, which means they can only exist in a solid such as a crystal, and not as standalone particles. But further research will help scientists work out just how useful they could be.
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In other words, don’t hold your breath waiting. I always scan the bottom of these science hype articles to get the good stuff.
ping
quantum ping!
tech ping!
B
Why did they announce it on something akin to a blog?
Massless?
Why does everything come back to communist pope Francis?
Ok, I read it twice. I kind of get it. I assume ten years from now I will hear about this again when a Nobel prize is given. Then I will never hear of it again.
The recent discoveries of Dirac fermions in graphene and on the surface of topological insulators have ignited worldwide interest in physics and materials science.
A Weyl semimetal is an unusual crystal where electrons also behave as massless quasi-particles but interestingly they are not Dirac fermions. These massless particles, Weyl fermions, were originally considered in massless quantum electrodynamics but have not been observed as a fundamental particle in nature. A Weyl semimetal provides a condensed matter realization of Weyl fermions, leading to unique transport properties with novel device applications.
Here, we THEORETICALLY identify the first Weyl semimetal in a class of stoichiometric materials (TaAs, NbAs, NbP, TaP), which break crystalline inversion symmetry, including TaAs, TaP, NbAs and NbP. Our first-principles calculation-based predictions on TaAs reveal the spin-polarized Weyl cones and Fermi arc surface states in this compound.
We also observe pairs of Weyl points with the same chiral charge which project onto the same point in the surface Brillouin zone, giving rise to multiple Fermi arcs connecting to a given Weyl point.
Our results show that TaAs is the first topological semimetal identified which does not depend on fine-tuning of chemical composition or magnetic order, greatly facilitating an exploration of Weyl physics in real materials. (Note added: This theoretical prediction of November 2014 (see paper in Nature Communications) was the basis for the first experimental discovery of Weyl Fermions and topological Fermi arcs in TaAs recently published in Science (2015).
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