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Majorana zero modes in iron-based superconductors can spread across several fractional vortex cores rather than sitting at a single point. That spread would let researchers detect them with both local tunneling and a nonlocal method called crossed Andreev reflection, giving the field a second way to confirm the particles that topological qubits depend on. The approach is still early, so the key questions are whether experiments reproduce these signatures and whether they can be told apart from non-topological explanations.
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Experiment Supports Theoretical Path to Topological Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — One approach to making information storage in quantum computing less prone to errors is known as topological quantum computing. It relies on special quantum states that are expected to be more resistant to local disturbances. Physicists at the University of Cologne have now observed quantum states that behave as predicted […]
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