Weyl semimetal

Weyl semimetals are semimetals or metals whose quasiparticle excitation is the Weyl fermion, a particle that played a crucial role in quantum field theory but has not been observed as a fundamental particle in vacuum.[1] In these materials, electrons have a linear dispersion relation, making them a solid-state analogue of relativistic massless particles.[2]

  1. ^ Shuang Jia, Su-Yang Xu & M. Zahid Hasan (2016). "Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs and chiral anomalies". Nature Materials. 56 (15): 1140–1144. arXiv:1612.00416. Bibcode:2016NatMa..15.1140J. doi:10.1038/nmat4787. PMID 27777402. S2CID 1115349.
  2. ^ Pongsangangan, K. (2018). Role of Coulomb Interactions in Weyl Semimetals: Renormalisation and Symmetry Breaking (MSc Physics thesis). Utrecht university.