New approach for Majorana research in short nanowires

Researchers and engineers from QuTech and Eindhoven University of Technology have created Majorana particles and measured their properties with great control. These Majoranas are so-called 'poor man's Majoranas' based on two quantum dots in a nanowire, which could be scaled up to a larger chain of quantum dots with more resilient Majorana behavior. Majorana particles are one of several promising candidates for stable quantum bits, the building blocks of quantum computers. The researchers have published their results in Nature. Quantum computers are a revolutionary technology, which have the potential to solve certain problems much faster than classical computers. That is because they use quantum bits, or qubits, which can represent both a 0 and a 1 at the same time. This allows quantum computers to perform multiple calculations simultaneously.