{"id":905,"date":"2015-11-20T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:40:58","slug":"after-85-years-physicists-confirm-weyl-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"After 85 Years, Physicists Confirm Weyl Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hermann Weyl. Photo courtesy ETH-Bibliothek Zurich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1928, the equations of British physicist Paul Dirac helped to describe the workings of the subatomic particles known as fermions. Within a year, other theorists \u2013 including a contemporary and schoolmate of Einstein’s named Hermann Weyl \u2013 had come up with solutions to Dirac’s equations that meant two other, quite odd types of fermions might also exist.<\/p>\n

Proving them right would take some\u00a0time, and Weyl’s quasiparticle assumed a kind of legendary status until 2015, when three separate teams confirmed its existence (my article says two, but a third popped up after I wrote it). Read on to find out more about this “ghost particle” and how it could transform electronics.<\/p>\n

Meet Weyl, the Massless Particle That Could Upend Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1928, the equations of British physicist Paul Dirac helped to describe the workings of the subatomic particles known as fermions. Within a year, other theorists \u2013 including a contemporary and schoolmate of Einstein’s named Hermann Weyl \u2013 had come up with solutions to Dirac’s equations that meant two other, quite odd types of fermions … Continue reading After 85 Years, Physicists Confirm Weyl Particle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,76,54,73,85,74,3,13],"tags":[1051,1048,896,1052,1049,77,1050],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-electromagnetism","category-materials","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-crystal","tag-electronics","tag-fermion","tag-graphene","tag-power","tag-quantum","tag-quasiparticle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}