Due to their chirality, the massless fermions inside Weyl semimetals can take unusual paths that are governed by chiral dynamics, potentially providing a direct method to explore their topological nature.
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Dai, X. Weyl fermions go into orbit. Nature Phys 12, 727–728 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3841
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