Weyl-Kondo semimetal (IMAGE)

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Weyl-Kondo semimetal

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Photograph of a single crystal of a nonmagnetic topological material of cerium, bismuth and palladium known as a Weyl-Kondo semimetal that physicists at Vienna University of Technology used to measure the Hall effect -- a characteristic change in the way electricity is conducted in the presence of a magnetic field -- with no magnetic field applied.

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Photo by S. Dzsaber/TU Wien

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