{"id":92039,"date":"2019-06-14T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/wild-new-discovery-shows-how-we-can-switch-majorana-fermions-on-and-off"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:03:51","slug":"wild-new-discovery-shows-how-we-can-switch-majorana-fermions-on-and-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/wild-new-discovery-shows-how-we-can-switch-majorana-fermions-on-and-off","title":{"rendered":"Wild New Discovery Shows How We Can Switch Majorana Fermions On And Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-new-discovery-shows-how-we-can-switch-majorana-fermions-on-and-off3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The particle known as a Majorana <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fermion\">fermion<\/a> is as mysterious and uncontrollable as it is unique. It\u2019s the only known particle that is also its own antiparticle, and has properties that make it an alluring candidate for qubits, the basic unit of information in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quantum computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harnessing that potential, however, is easier said than done \u2014 Majorana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"fermions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fermions<\/a> are slippery little suckers. But a team of particle physicists now reports they\u2019ve found a way to control them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have a new way to engineer Majorana quasiparticles in materials,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/06\/190613143548.htm\">said physicist Ali Yazdani of Princeton University<\/a>. \u201cWe can verify their existence by imaging them and we can characterise their predicted properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/wild-new-discovery-shows-how-we-can-switch-majorana-fermions-on-and-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The particle known as a Majorana fermion is as mysterious and uncontrollable as it is unique. It\u2019s the only known particle that is also its own antiparticle, and has properties that make it an alluring candidate for qubits, the basic unit of information in a quantum computer. Harnessing that potential, however, is easier said than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92039","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\/92039","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=92039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}