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Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a quasiparticle (a group of particles behaving as one) that only has ...

“We weren’t even looking for a semi-Dirac fermion,” said Yinming Shao, a physics professor and lead author on the study. “We were seeing signatures we didn’t understand — and it turns out we had made ...

Scientists have accidentally discovered a particle that has mass when traveling in one direction, but no mass while moving in a different direction. Known as semi-Dirac fermions, particles with this ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed a semi-Dirac fermion, a quasiparticle with massless behavior in one direction and mass in another. This groundbreaking discovery, made within a ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle, that's massless when moving one direction but has mass in the other ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The subatomic world is home to many mysteries in both quantum and classical physics. It’s well known that ...

Quasiparticles -- long-lived particle-like excitations -- are a cornerstone of quantum physics, with famous examples such as Cooper pairs in superconductivity and, recently, Dirac quasiparticles in ...

For the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of a strange and elusive creature in the world of quantum physics—a semi-Dirac fermion. This unusual quasiparticle behaves as if it has no mass in ...

An illustration of the calculated structure of ZrSiS near the crossing points of its structure, showing a semi-Dirac point as a black sphere on the left. Data points as purple dots support the ...