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A new way to Weyl

Nature Materials volume 22, pages 408–409 (2023)Cite this article

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Scientists have realized Weyl modes by exposing a topological insulator to large magnetic fields. Their effort enriches the toolbox to design, engineer and manipulate topological materials for physics research and materials applications.

Weyl fermions are massless fermions that have definite chirality (or handedness), defined as whether the momentum is parallel or antiparallel to the spin. They were predicted by Hermann Weyl in 1929 when he considered a simplified version of the Dirac equation for relativistic particles. Although originating from elementary particle physics, no such Weyl fermions have been identified in high-energy experiments.

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Fig. 1: The evolution of the bulk band structure in HfTe5 under an increasing magnetic field.

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Lu, Z., Ju, L. A new way to Weyl. Nat. Mater. 22, 408–409 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01512-5

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