“For years after I first learned about Ettore Majorana, I wanted to write a book about his life… but I always deferred to an uncertain future the act of putting pen to paper. Then, one day I read a ...

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Scientists in the Netherlands have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle. In the 1930s, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana deduced from quantum theory the possibility of the ...

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In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle – its identical twin but with opposite charge. In 1937, another brilliant ...

Physicists at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, have achieved a milestone that might soon revolutionize the world of quantum computing, quantum physics, and perhaps shed new light on ...

In his short career, Ettore Majorana made several profound contributions. One of them, his concept of 'Majorana fermions' — particles that are their own antiparticle — is finding ever wider relevance ...

Two halves: Artist’s impression of a photon that has been “split” into halves. (Courtesy: LaDarius Dennison/Dartmouth College) The Majorana fermion was first proposed as a subatomic particle by the ...