{"id":163153,"date":"2023-05-01T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-pull-back-the-quantum-curtain-on-weyl-fermions"},"modified":"2023-05-01T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:23:02","slug":"researchers-pull-back-the-quantum-curtain-on-weyl-fermions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-pull-back-the-quantum-curtain-on-weyl-fermions","title":{"rendered":"Researchers pull back the quantum curtain on \u2018Weyl fermions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-pull-back-the-quantum-curtain-on-weyl-fermions3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northeastern researchers have made what they describe as a groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Wei-Chi Chiu, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern reporting to Arun Bansil, university distinguished professor of physics at Northeastern, tells Northeastern Global News that his team has published a novel study examining the nature of a specific class of subatomic particles, whose very existence has eluded quantum physicists for nearly a century.<\/p>\n<p>Chiu and his colleagues propose a new theoretical framework to explain how these particles, called Weyl fermions, interact with each other in certain materials. The findings, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> earlier this month, look beyond the framework of Albert Einstein\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theory+of+relativity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theory of relativity<\/a> to probe these mysterious particles, Chiu says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeastern researchers have made what they describe as a groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum mechanics. Wei-Chi Chiu, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern reporting to Arun Bansil, university distinguished professor of physics at Northeastern, tells Northeastern Global News that his team has published a novel study examining the nature of a specific class of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}