{"id":130581,"date":"2021-11-14T07:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/physicists-develop-a-device-that-could-provide-conclusive-evidence-for-the-existence-or-not-of-non-abelian-anyons"},"modified":"2021-11-14T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:22:42","slug":"physicists-develop-a-device-that-could-provide-conclusive-evidence-for-the-existence-or-not-of-non-abelian-anyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/physicists-develop-a-device-that-could-provide-conclusive-evidence-for-the-existence-or-not-of-non-abelian-anyons","title":{"rendered":"Physicists develop a device that could provide conclusive evidence for the existence (or not) of non-Abelian anyons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What kinds of \u2018particles\u2019 are allowed by nature? The answer lies in the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes the microscopic world.<\/p>\n

In a bid to stretch the boundaries of our understanding of the quantum<\/a> world, UC Santa Barbara researchers have developed a device that could prove the existence of non-Abelian anyons, a quantum particle<\/a> that has been mathematically predicted to exist in two-dimensional space, but so far not conclusively shown. The existence of these particles would pave the way toward major advances in topological quantum computing.<\/p>\n

In a study that appears in the journal Nature<\/i>, physicist Andrea Young, his graduate student Sasha Zibrov and their colleagues have taken a leap toward finding conclusive evidence for non-Abelian anyons. Using graphene, an atomically thin material derived from graphite (a form of carbon), they developed an extremely low-defect, highly tunable device in which non-Abelian anyons should be much more accessible. First, a little background: In our three-dimensional universe, elementary particles can be either fermions or bosons: think electrons (fermions) or the Higgs (a boson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What kinds of \u2018particles\u2019 are allowed by nature? The answer lies in the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes the microscopic world. In a bid to stretch the boundaries of our understanding of the quantum world, UC Santa Barbara researchers have developed a device that could prove the existence of non-Abelian anyons, a quantum particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}