Majorana fermions are theoretical particles predicted by the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937. Unlike traditional fermions that have distinct antiparticle counterparts, Majorana fermions are ...

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 ...

Inside materials, the interactions between groups of electrons and atoms in the crystal lattice can give rise to a variety of interesting phenomena. Their collective behavior, especially at low ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There are only two types of fundamental particle known in the entire ...

The great success in the field of topological insulators 1,2 since last decade inspired the study of topological features of metals. Topological metals have non-trivial surface states and their bulk ...

The level of sociability for atoms and subatomic particles depends on how much spin they have, which is a measure of how fast they spin around themselves. Atoms and subatomic particles with integer ...

In recent years physicists have realized that fermions can exhibit superfluid behaviour because of their ability to pair up at very low temperatures. Now a US group has shown that if a mixture of ...

The fermionizer: physicists have used this experimental set-up to make bosonic atoms behave like fermions. (Courtesy: Nate Follmer/Penn State) Physicists in the US have shown that normally gregarious ...

Quasiparticles that behave like massless fermions, known as Weyl fermions, have been in recent years at the center of a string of exciting findings in condensed matter physics. Physicists now report ...

The combined paired and periodic structure of the bubble phase of composite fermions represents an entirely new family of matter. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Like finding a hidden world, physicists dialing ...

The totality of existence can be divided into these categories, each with a vital role in the structure of the universe. Every single particle fits into one of just three classes, or kingdoms: bosons, ...