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Condensed-matter physics brings us quasiparticles that behave like massless fermions.

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Figure 1: Weyl semimetals in momentum space.

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  1. B. Andrei Bernevig is an associate professor in the Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA,

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Bernevig, B. It's been a Weyl coming. Nature Phys 11, 698–699 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3454

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