alt Hacker NewsWhoever decided to make up the non-existent term "topoconductor" for the purposes of this article deserves to feel shame and embarassment (I say this as a condensed matter physicist).
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12_throw_away • 02/19/2025
Come for the made-up jargon, stay for the horrific PR abuse of the English language like "Unlocking quantum’s promise"
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pm90 • 02/19/2025
Genuinely curious: in what ways is that not a good term? Is it because its not a new thing, just marketing? Or is it conflating with some other physics things?
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agarttha • 02/20/2025
Another condmat physicist wondering how this work got so hyped up. Single shot parity measurements are not new.
I skimmed through the paper but nowhere did I find a demonstration of a Majorana qubit or a zero mode. The achievement was that they demonstrated a single-shot measurement. That's nice, but where's the qubit? what did I miss?