{"id":27469,"date":"2016-07-03T08:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-that-majorana-fermions-exist"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:17","slug":"proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-that-majorana-fermions-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-that-majorana-fermions-exist","title":{"rendered":"Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Majorana Fermions Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-that-majorana-fermions-exist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only could they transform quantum computing, they\u2019re a candidate for dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Chinese physicists from Shanghai\u2019s Jiaotong University have proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the existence of the Majorana fermion \u2014 a special particle that could potentially revolutionize quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe search for this particle is for condensed-matter physicists what the Higgs boson search was for high-energy particle physicists,\u201d said Leonid Rokhinson, an associate professor of physics at Purdue University, who was the first to detect the signature of the fermion in 2012 but was not involved in this study, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2012-09-signature-long-sought-particle-revolutionize-quantum.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Signature of long-sought particle that could revolutionize quantum computing\">2012 press release<\/a>. \u201cIt is a very peculiar object because it is a <a href=\"http:\/\/thescienceexplorer.com\/universe\/predicted-particle-defies-fundamental-law-universe\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Predicted Particle Defies Fundamental Law of Universe\">fermion<\/a> yet it is its own antiparticle with zero mass and zero charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thescienceexplorer.com\/universe\/proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-majorana-fermions-exist\">http:\/\/thescienceexplorer.com\/universe\/proof-beyond-reasonab...ions-exist<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only could they transform quantum computing, they\u2019re a candidate for dark matter. A team of Chinese physicists from Shanghai\u2019s Jiaotong University have proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the existence of the Majorana fermion \u2014 a special particle that could potentially revolutionize quantum computing. \u201cThe search for this particle is for condensed-matter physicists what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67033,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions\/67033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}