Charge your phone battery only once in a year thanks to 'ghost' seeds

A mass of "ghost" particles that have not been successfully created in the laboratory, promises to bring breakthroughs in the cell phone battery industry, allowing users to charge only once a year.

"Ghost" promises to charge the phone only once a year

This mysterious particle was proposed by mathematician Hermann Weyl in 1929. They have no mass and spin spins in two symmetrical directions. When two particles rotate in two directions symmetrically contacting each other, they will disappear together. There are three types of fermions : Dirac, Majorana and Weyl . The first two types have been detected in particle accelerators, while the last one has never been found before.

Two Weyl particles with symmetrical spins.(Photo: Seenthis.net)

From a 2011 study that could create Weyl under specific conditions, such as having a semiconductor (the property between insulators and conductors) with crystals asymmetry, houses The science of Princeton University, New Jersey has chosen a suitable material, which is a substance made of tantalum and arsenic (tantalum-arsenide).

When using bombardment of light beams of photons , electrons in the lattice of tantalum-arsenide compound escape the bond in the network and move in the compound. Studying the motion of these electrons, the team found that they carried Weyl's characteristics.

Cell batteries made with "ghost" particles only need to be charged once a year.(Artwork: SCMP)

This study will open a new direction for the application of new electronic devices . All current technological devices use electrons (electrons) that run in wires. This process produces heat and consumes useless energy. If replacing electrons with Weyl "ghost particles" , the current flowing in the circuit will almost not generate heat and only provide very little energy for the device. These are the only north or south particles, characterized by spins.

"You can imagine it is like a tiny magnet with only one pole, " Dr. Weng Hongming, a "ghost particle " researcher, told the South China Morning Post. Mobile phones that use this technology will only need to charge once a year. This is also a promising technology to replace superconductors in future quantum computers .