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Impostor physical particles revealed: a key advance for quantum technology

Impostor physical particles revealed: a key advance for quantum technology

In search of the Majorana rock star. Pictures. Credit: Maksim Borovkov The most common particles are electrons and photons, which are understood as examples of the large families of fermions and bosons, to which all other particles in nature belong. But there is another possible category of particles, the so-called anyons. Anyons are predicted to …

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How will American supercomputers model elementary particles next?

How will American supercomputers model elementary particles next?

The US Department of Energy explained this week how it intends to put its supercomputing power to work by simulating the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The electrons, protons, and neutrons that make up atoms, of which all matter is composed, are fairly well understood. However, the particles that make up these particles – …

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