Research at Stanford discovered evidence for the Majorana fermion, a particle that is its own antiparticle. No immediate practical use for this knowledge, but the researchers say it could advance quantum computing in the future.
“Our team predicted exactly where to find the Majorana fermion and what to look for as its ‘smoking gun’ experimental signature,” said Zhang, a theoretical physicist and one of the senior authors of the research paper. “This discovery concludes one of the most intensive searches in fundamental physics, which spanned exactly 80 years.”
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