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$A false-color high-resolution transmission electron microscopy image of the zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe5) with an inset selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern, showing the layer normal along the b axis. Scale bar - 2 nm. Image credit: Yanwen Liu et al.$

Physicists: Massless Electrons Acquire Mass in Presence of Strong Magnetic Field

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

For the first time, physicists have discovered that in an extremely high magnetic field ‘massless’ Dirac electrons can acquire a mass. A false-color...