{"id":183528,"date":"2024-02-24T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-phase-of-matter-physicists-achieve-first-demonstration-of-non-abelian-anyons-in-a-quantum-processor"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:27:47","slug":"a-new-phase-of-matter-physicists-achieve-first-demonstration-of-non-abelian-anyons-in-a-quantum-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-phase-of-matter-physicists-achieve-first-demonstration-of-non-abelian-anyons-in-a-quantum-processor","title":{"rendered":"A new phase of matter: Physicists achieve first demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-phase-of-matter-physicists-achieve-first-demonstration-of-non-abelian-anyons-in-a-quantum-processor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our physical, 3D world consists of just two types of particles: bosons, which include light and the famous Higgs boson; and fermions\u2014the protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise all the \u201cstuff,\u201d present company included.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists like Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard\u2019s George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, don\u2019t like to limit themselves to just our world, though. In a 2D setting, for instance, all kinds of new particles and states of matter would become possible.<\/p>\n<p>Vishwanath\u2019s team used a powerful machine called a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+processor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum processor<\/a> to make, for the first time, a brand-new phase of matter called non-Abelian topological order. Previously recognized in theory only, the team demonstrated synthesis and control of exotic particles called non-Abelian anyons, which are neither bosons nor fermions, but something in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our physical, 3D world consists of just two types of particles: bosons, which include light and the famous Higgs boson; and fermions\u2014the protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise all the \u201cstuff,\u201d present company included. Theoretical physicists like Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard\u2019s George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, don\u2019t like to limit themselves to just our world, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183528","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}