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Physicists create long-sought topological quantum states

Exotic particles called nonabelions could fix quantum computers’ error problem.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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The coat of arms of Italy’s aristocratic House of Borromeo contains an unsettling symbol: an arrangement of three interlocking rings that cannot be pulled apart but doesn’t contain any linked pairs.

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Nature 617, 445-446 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01574-0

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