Scientists in the Netherlands have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle. In the 1930s, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana deduced from quantum theory the possibility of the ...

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In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle – its identical twin but with opposite charge. In 1937, another brilliant ...

There are a number of things that we still don’t understand about our universe. Case in point, since the 1930s, scientists have been searching for particles that are simultaneously matter and ...

Leo Kouwenhoven is a professor of physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He ended the 75-year hunt for the Majorana fermion—a particle that is its own antiparticle—by creating ...

Protected states: Sven Albrecht and Charles Marcus. (Courtesy: Ola Jakup Joensen/Niels Bohr Institute) An important property of Majorana quasiparticles has been measured for the first time by ...

Physicists at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, have achieved a milestone that might soon revolutionize the world of quantum computing, quantum physics, and perhaps shed new light on ...

In a recent publication in the prestigious journal Science, a joint research team comprised of physicists from Stanford, UC Irvine and UCLA announced that they had confirmed the existence of Majorana ...

Physicists in the Netherlands say that they have found the first evidence for the existence of “Majorana fermions” – particles that are their own antiparticles. The researchers claim to have spotted ...

The nanowire (green) where the Majorana quasiparticle was captured and measured. Source: Hao Zhang, QuTech. Quantum computers hold the promise of the so-called quantum supremacy, which is the ability ...