Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future: They have probably succeeded in creating a topological superconductor

With their insensitivity to decoherence what are known as Majorana particles could become stable building blocks of a quantum computer. The problem is that they only occur under very special circumstances. Now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in manufacturing a component that is able to host the sought-after particles.