In Search of Majorana Fermions
My first encounter with the concept of matter and anti-matter came while reading the works of the author Dan Brown. The novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’ spoke about a plot where the scientists at CERN had successfully created anti matter. Typically if anti matter comes in contact with matter it would annihilate each other leaving behind pure energy. It is hence believed that particle and anti particle were buzzing into existence during the birth of the universe, the big bang. Majorana fermions on the other hand are fermions which are its own antiparticle and its bound states are governed by non-abelian statistics.