Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical paraparticles could exist in a kind of inbetween. Although technically quasiparticles ...

Now, a team of physicists from Rice University and Max Planck suggests something even more startling: there might be particles that defy the traditional dichotomy of fermions and bosons ...

This is fundamentally different from the behavior of conventional fermions and bosons, offering a new mechanism for quantum computation. The unique properties of Majorana fermions hold great promise ...

The new quasiparticles, which are neither bosons nor fermions and carry no charge, could have applications in quantum computing and sensing, they say. In our everyday, three-dimensional world, ...

These four fundamental forces exist between fermions (quarks and leptons). They arise from the exchange of bosons. Bosons are the 'force carrying' or 'force-mediating' particles. If a fermion ...

After introductory chapters on scalar fields, gauge fields and fermion fields, the book studies quarks and gluons in QCD and fermions and bosons in the electroweak theory. The last chapter is devoted ...

Both superconductivity and superfluidity are the result of quantum condensation — that is, Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of bosons and pair formation of fermions, as described by the theory ...

Majorana fermions An electrically charged particle is different from its antiparticle as it has the opposite electric charge, and electric charge is a measurable, stable property.

This condensation occurs because bosons, unlike fermions, do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle and can occupy the same quantum state. The critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation ...