In the August 23 2017 issue of the journal Nature researchers report they have managed to braid non-Abelian anyons (also called Majorana sudo-particles) in a hashtag # arrangement of wires. These braids can encode a Qbit of quantum information and they can be manipulated. These braids are very robust, far less likely to suffer quantum decoherence from the environment than anything else known.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7668/full/nature23468.html Maybe there is some showstopper that hasn't shown up yet but in my opinion this technology has more potential to suddenly change civilization than just about anything else, except maybe H-bomb technology, because unlike other methods once you've made even a very small quantum computer that works on this principle it should be pretty straightforward to scale it up, way up. This short video explains what they did and why braids of particles that follow non-Abelian rules are the ideal thing to use for making a quantum computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aakSpSXLSYY John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
