In more excitin' quasiparticle news (well, from last week): Pixy Misa says hello to the new qubit. In a two-dimensional lattice, researchers can get a non-Abelian topological order
. They are keen on the "anyons", as being neither bosonic nor fermionic.
Therefore certainly not mesonic which, as I've just been taught ("schooled", as I put it), can be both.
What we have here is an exciton, the moving gap in the lattice. Apparently it is more stable. Which is great, for those working with quantum computers (if not for encryption) because for all the hype and the cost, nothing here has really gone beyond "yayy we got a quantum computer (no it doesn't do anything your Acer can't do)".
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