MIT: First Sighting of Mysterious Majorana Fermion on a Common Metal
April 10, 2020
April 10, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
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- Physicists' discovery could lead to a new family of robust qubits for quantum computing.
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Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have observed evidence of Majorana fermions -- particles that are theorized to also be their own antiparticle -- on the surface of a common metal: gold. This is the first sighting of Majorana fermions on a . . .
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- Physicists' discovery could lead to a new family of robust qubits for quantum computing.
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Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have observed evidence of Majorana fermions -- particles that are theorized to also be their own antiparticle -- on the surface of a common metal: gold. This is the first sighting of Majorana fermions on a . . .