{"id":91992,"date":"2019-06-13T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mysterious-majorana-quasiparticle-is-now-closer-to-being-controlled-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:36","slug":"mysterious-majorana-quasiparticle-is-now-closer-to-being-controlled-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mysterious-majorana-quasiparticle-is-now-closer-to-being-controlled-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Majorana quasiparticle is now closer to being controlled for quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-majorana-quasiparticle-is-now-closer-to-being-controlled-for-quantum-computing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As mysterious as the Italian scientist for which it is named, the Majorana particle is one of the most compelling quests in physics.<\/p>\n<p>Its fame stems from its strange properties\u2014it is the only particle that is its own antiparticle\u2014and from its potential to be harnessed for future quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, a handful of groups including a team at Princeton have reported finding the Majorana in various materials, but the challenge is how to manipulate it for quantum computation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-mysterious-majorana-quasiparticle-closer-quantum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mysterious as the Italian scientist for which it is named, the Majorana particle is one of the most compelling quests in physics. Its fame stems from its strange properties\u2014it is the only particle that is its own antiparticle\u2014and from its potential to be harnessed for future quantum computing. In recent years, a handful of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91992","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\/91992","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}