The Army Wants to Use a Theoretical Particle To Make an Unhackable Quantum Computer

The Army Wants to Use a Theoretical Particle To Make an Unhackable Quantum Computer

  • April 19, 2018
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The Army Wants to Use a Theoretical Particle To Make an Unhackable Quantum Computer

Last July, a group of researchers from UC Irvine, UCLA, and Stanford announced they’d found the first strong evidence of the Majorana fermion, an elusive particle first theorised over 80 years ago that acts as its own antiparticle. The evidence of the Majorana fermion was hailed as a major “landmark” in physics, but it didn’t take long for the US Army, which funded the research, to begin considering wartime applications for the particle.

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