Majorana highway on a chip

A collaboration of researchers has now combined novel

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nanowires with a high-quality interface to other required materials on a chip. This allows for bullet-like collisionless quantum transport of charges through the nanowires: a requirement for larger-scale Majorana-based experiment.

The novel methods open doors towards quantum computations based on Majorana fermions, allow for the exploration of new quantum effects in such materials ánd can have future applications in energy-efficient electronics.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-majorana-highway-chip.html#jCp