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Evidence of the existence of the Majorana fermion has never been discovered, and along with neutrinos and Higgs-bosons, it has become a particle that has long been predicted by theories but has not been able to verify for a long time. Now, Zhang Shousheng's team has finally found evidence of its existence.
Zhang Shousheng called the Majorana fermions they found "angel particles." According to Einstein's mass-energy conversion formula, when a particle encounters its antiparticle, it annihilates and releases energy. The American thriller "Angels and Devils" mentions the scene of the annihilation of positive and negative particles**, comparing particles and antiparticles to angels and devils.
And in the world of Majorana fermions that we find out, there are only angels and no devils. Zhang Shousheng told Xinhua News Agency.
In the process of searching for "angel particles", the theoretical team led by Zhang Shousheng predicted what kind of experimental platform could find Majorana fermions and which experimental signals could be used as evidence; The experimental team led by Qinglin He and Kanglong Wang of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jing Xia of the University of Irvine worked closely with the theoretical team to discover the most basic class of Majorana fermions known as chiral Majorana fermions. China's Fudan University and ShanghaiTech University also contributed to the experiment. <>
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Zhang Shousheng, a Chinese scientist at Stanford University in the United States, and others reported in the American journal Science on the 20th that they had found evidence for the existence of Majorana fermions for the first time. This major discovery solves a problem that has plagued quantum physics for 80 years and is also of great significance for quantum computing. Positive and negative, yin and yang, good and evil, ......The world seems to be full of pros and cons.
British physicist Paul Dirac predicted in 1928 that every elementary particle has a corresponding antiparticle. A few years later, scientists verified this prediction by discovering the electron's antiparticle positron in cosmic rays. In 1937, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana predicted that there may be a special class of particles in nature, and their antiparticles are themselves, and this kind of positive and anti-homogeneous particles are called Majorana fermions.
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According to reports, Zhang Shousheng, a Chinese scientist at Stanford University in the United States, and others announced that they have discovered the evidence for the existence of Majorana fermions for the first time, and this major discovery solves the problem that has plagued quantum physics for 80 years.
It is reported that there may be a special class of particles in nature, and their antiparticles are themselves, and this kind of positive and anti-homogeneous particles are called Majorana fermions, but the evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions has not been discovered, and it has become a particle that has long been predicted by theories but cannot be verified for a long time together with neutrinos and Higgs-bosons.
According to Einstein's mass-energy conversion formula, when a particle encounters its antiparticle, it will be annihilated and release energy, but in the world of Majorana fermions, there are only angels and no devils.
Experts say that the discovery of the existence of Majorana fermions is of great significance for building a stable quantum computer.
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Yes, I saw it on the news as well.
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The discovery of angel particles means that quantum computing has become possible.
The quantum world is parallel in nature, and a single quantum particle is able to pass through two slits at the same time. Quantum computers are capable of highly parallel computations, far more efficient than classical computers.
Angel particles generally refer to Majorana fermions.
The majorana fermion is a fermion whose antiparticle is itself. In contrast, a dirac fermion refers to a fermion whose antiparticle is different from itself.
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