“The search for this particle is for condensed-matter physicists what the Higgs boson search was for high-energy particle physicists. It is a very peculiar object because it is a fermion yet it is its own antiparticle with zero mass and zero charge. Whether or not these particles will work for quantum computing has yet to be seen, but in the process of trying we will learn a lot of unknown quantum physics,. This could open the door to a whole new field of the topological effects of quantum mechanics.”

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