Discovered by Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, The weyl seminetal (a solid-state crystal the low energy excitations of which are Weyl fermions) will lead to further study of Weyl fermions, a type of massless elementary particle hypothesized by high-energy particle theory and potentially useful for creating high-speed electronic circuits and quantum computers.
Further research should point the way to an increased number of new materials with unusual transport properties.