New quantum material discovered - "Weyl–Kondo semimetal"

[gary]

In a 20 Dec 2017 article in the Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/quantum-material-physics-weyl-kondo-semimetal-vienna-university-technology-a8121141.html), Science Editor Josh Gabbatiss
reports on the discovery of a new type of quantum material.

The researchers who made the discovery have called it "Weyl-Kondo semimetal”.



Full story here :-
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/quantum-material-physics-weyl-kondo-semimetal-vienna-university-technology-a8121141.html

Paper entitled "Weyl–Kondo semimetal in heavy-fermion systems" by
Lai et. al. here :-
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/12/1715851115.full

[bojan]

Hmm...
Could that possibly lead to superconductivity at room temperatures?
It seems new data storage technology can be developed based on those materials... quantum leap in storage capacity?
Maybe Moore's law can be "broken" (for a while)?