UIC Physicists Successfully Image Majorana Fermion
Dirk Morr
A. A monolayer of iron atoms assembled on a rhenium surface. B. Image of a Majorana fermion as a bright line along the edge of the iron using a scanning tunneling microscope.
A collaboration between UIC physics researchers led by Professor Dirk Morr, the University of Melbourne (Australia), and the University of Hamburg (Germany) have theoretically predicted and successfully imaged an exotic quantum particle known as the Majorana fermion. This discovery helps pave the way for the development of fault-tolerant quantum bits, or qubits, that are the fundamental building blocks for the creation of quantum computers. The UIC team includes physics graduate students Eric Mascot and Sagen Cocklin.
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The team's findings have been published in Science Advances.
Modified on August 30, 2019