{"id":19600,"date":"2015-11-25T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/material-universe-yields-surprising-new-particle"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:57","slug":"material-universe-yields-surprising-new-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/material-universe-yields-surprising-new-particle","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Material universe\u2019 yields surprising new particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/material-universe-yields-surprising-new-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has predicted the existence of a new type of particle called the type-II Weyl fermion in metallic materials. When subjected to a magnetic field, the materials containing the particle act as insulators for current applied in some directions and as conductors for current applied in other directions. This behavior suggests a range of potential applications, from low-energy devices to efficient transistors.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers theorize that the particle exists in a material known as tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), which the researchers liken to a \u201cmaterial universe\u201d because it contains several <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particles\/\" rel=\"tag\">particles<\/a>, some of which exist under normal conditions in our universe and others that may exist only in these specialized types of crystals. The research appeared in the journal <i>Nature<\/i> this week.<\/p>\n<p>The new particle is a cousin of the Weyl fermion, one of the particles in standard <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+field\/\" rel=\"tag\">quantum field<\/a> theory. However, the type-II particle exhibits very different responses to electromagnetic fields, being a near perfect conductor in some directions of the field and an insulator in others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-material-universe-yields-particle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has predicted the existence of a new type of particle called the type-II Weyl fermion in metallic materials. When subjected to a magnetic field, the materials containing the particle act as insulators for current applied in some directions and as conductors for current applied in other directions. This behavior suggests [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69137,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions\/69137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}