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Researchers discovered that platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi2) is a topological superconductor with unique electron pairing patterns and naturally hosts Majorana particles at its edges, offering promising avenues for quantum computing applications.
Researchers at the University of Basel have cast doubt on Microsoft's recent research results regarding the detection of Majorana particles, which could be used as particularly robust quantum bits in quantum computers. The Basel team showed that the findings could also be explained by other effects that have nothing to do with Majorana particles. The researchers concluded that both the current anomaly and the superconducting properties can be reproduced by a small amount of disorder from impurities inside the nanowire.