Majorana Fermion May Have Been Spotted At TU Delft

Posted by Unknown on Thursday March 1, 2012 @08:03AM from the secrets-of-the-universe dept.

vikingpower writes "A research group at Technical University Delft around prof. Kouwenhoven has probably not only spotted pairs of so-called Majorana Fermions for the first time (these had been predicted to exist by the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana), but also demonstrated that, by generating them at the end of an Indium-Arsenide microwire, quantum computing with them may have come one more step closer to reality. The excitement around Prof. Kouwenhoven at the American Physical Society annual congress in Boston, after he completed his presentation, was considerable.A nice illustration is provided by this newspaper article (in Dutch)."

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Realized halfway through the summary... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-01 08:08 · Score: 5, Funny

It didn't say Marijuana
What? by bhcompy · 2012-03-01 08:18 · Score: 1, Funny

Is that the female orgasm or something?
1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-01 08:28 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Is that the female orgasm or something?
  How many times do I have to tell you... most women aren't physically attracted to high energy physics experiments like you are!
Re:Picture label wrong, it's indium-antimonide, by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-01 08:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes, the summary is correct (the FA proofers should be canned for letting that through).
Re:Now why didn't I think of that? by jackbird · 2012-03-01 13:10 · Score: 4, Funny

Are you saying the other ones were formed by magic?