GK Question

science hard mcq

Weyl semimetals host quasiparticles that behave like massless ________ fermions.

  1. Dirac
  2. Majorana
  3. Weyl
  4. Pauli

Answer: Weyl

Weyl fermions (predicted 1929, observed 2015) are chiral, massless excitations in topological semimetals. Exhibit exotic transport: chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs. Potential for low-power electronics, quantum computing. [[NCERT Physics Class 12, DST Reports]]

Topic Physics - Topological Materials
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