Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

Embezzlement of entanglement is an exotic phenomenon in quantum information science, describing the possibility of extracting entanglement from a resource system without changing its quantum state. In ...

In a recent publication in the prestigious journal Science, a joint research team comprised of physicists from Stanford, UC Irvine and UCLA announced that they had confirmed the existence of Majorana ...

New quantum category: Physicists have revealed a one-dimensional system that could host anyons, particles that defy the boson–fermion classification. Tunable particle behavior: These anyons may be ...

Editor’s note: On November 17, 2022, Science retracted the study described in this article, in part because “an analysis of the raw and published data revealed serious irregularities and discrepancies ...

Physicists in Japan have created the first 2D “heavy-fermion” material – providing the best evidence yet that heavy fermions undergo a quantum phase transition. The material was made using molecular ...

It may not be as famous as the Higgs boson but the Majorana fermion is a fascinating particle that has managed to evade physicists for the best part of a century. In this audio interview the ...

Two separate teams of researchers have found evidence for a theorized type of massless particle known as a “Weyl fermion.” The discovery was made by scientists at Princeton University in New Jersey ...

The detection of Majorana fermion is one of the hotspots in the study of condensed matter recently. The research group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) achieved great breakthrough in the ...