After Google’s Willow comes Microsoft’s Majorana 1, promising more fantastical quantum computing ahead. But does the reality ...

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This is where the rather strange Majorana particles come in. Two Majorana particles can produce either nothing or a whole fermion, which make the on and off states of a single qubit. Unlike many other ...

However, the paper also reportedly states that the experiments “do not, by themselves” guarantee that the nanowire hosts Majorana particles. “The Nature paper claims to measure fermion parity ...

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 has been in the works for nearly two decades and relies on a subatomic particle called the Majorana fermion whose existence was first theorized in the 1930s. That particle has ...