If authenticated, it will be the first time that a physical phenomenon predicted in 1937 by Italian Ettore Majorana theory appearing in practice. Majorana fermions are the particles of electrons have their own antiparticles. They are neither bosons nor fermions, and instead they follow the non-Abel statistics. The quantum state of such particles is expected to have high resistance to the disturbance caused by the environment, making them ideal candidates for quantum computers.

In an article published recently in Science, physicist Leo P.Kouwenhoven Mourikand Vincent said his team made ​​the Majorana fermion particles must be exposed by introducing a small board on the magnet field.
However, according to experts, although the evidence is pretty solid, but still needs more similar experiments in the near future to confirm this finding.

Special nuts
The particles always exist in two forms: fermions and bosons. Fermions are particles such as electrons, quarks and leptons. Fermions constitute matter and obey the Pauli exclusion principle on the two particles cannot have the same quantum state at the same time. Meanwhile, Boson particles such as photons, W bosons, Z bosons, gluons ...
The antimatter particles are fermions, ie the particles have the same mass but opposite electrode with them. An electron has negative electrode while its antiparticle is the positron bring positive electrode. When the electron anti-particles in contact with itself (in this case the positron), the two particles will kill each other and turn into the photon energy.

But diferent from other fermion particles, Majorana is just like the activity of its own antiparticle. Only thing, the Majorana particles will still cancel out when exposed to anti-particles.
If the findings are recorded Kouwenhoven, Majorana will give people an application in fact, that's how simple information storage and more efficient in quantum computing.