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weyl fermion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English

Syllables
weyl fermion
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

After Hermann Weyl, the person who proposed this fermion.

Inflected Forms

Weyl fermions (plural)

Questions

What does weyl fermion mean?
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.
Where does weyl fermion come from?
After Hermann Weyl, the person who proposed this fermion.

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