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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OMG... by jhoegl · 2012-03-01 08:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

OMG Im so Fermion right now....
Majorana != Bajoran by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-01 08:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

At first glance I thought we had a serious particle physics breakthrough out on Deep Space Nine.
Re:Condensed Matter by jhoegl · 2012-03-01 08:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Oh man, you are so out there right now that I have to smoke some Majorana to even think about getting on your level.