Posted on 07/10/2020 7:45:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
A small team of researchers at Purdue University has found the strongest evidence yet of the existence of abelian anyons. They have written a paper describing experiments they conducted designed to reveal the existence of the quasiparticles and have uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server while they await peer review.
Anyons are neither bosons nor fermions—in fact, they are not elementary particles at all. Instead, they are classified as quasiparticles that exist in two dimensions. They can be observed, theoretically speaking, when they appear as disturbances in two-dimensional sheets of materials. Theoretical physicists have suggested their existence since the late 1970s and they were officially named by Frank Wilczek in the early 1980s. Theory has also suggested that they braid, but in ways differently than bosons or fermions. If a fermion or a boson were dragged around another of its kind, theory suggests, the action would not produce a record of what had occurred. But because anyons alter wave functions, they would create such a record. The process involves inserting a phase into the wave function of the particles. In this new effort, the researchers created a device that allowed them to see evidence of such a record.
The device the team created involved moving anyons along a 2-D path; at a given point, the pathway split. One of the paths looped around another anyon which was situated in the center of the device. The other took a direct route before the two paths were reunited. The team then measured the electric current in the device looking for jumps. According to theory, such jumps would be present as anyons were added and then removed from the device, altering the phase. To be able to record such jumps, the device was built in layers of materials that filtered out random noise. The resulting measurements make the the strongest case to date for the existence of quasiparticles, and in so doing, have strongly bolstered theories that describe both their existence and their behavior. They have also likely brightened the hopes of some researchers who have been looking into the possibility of using anyons to create more robust quantum computers.
Quasiparticle braiding experiment. a) Schematic representation of quasiparticle exchange; quasiparticles are represented by red vortices, and trajectories are shown in dashed lines. b) False-color SEM image of interferometer. Credit: arXiv:2006.14115 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
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Anyon evidence observed using tiny anyon collider
The ‘depth’ is in the heart.
Remember the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013&version=KJV
In depth study of an anyon requires peeling it one layer at a time.
I understand ‘the heart’ to refer to the innermost aspect of our being, the spirit that is in us. As such, there is then a dimensional variable we in our present state cannot sense. At the gathering unto Christ in the air, we will have been created a new spacetime being with the fourth variable of spatial incorporated in our physical makeup, such that we too will be able to enter a sice-sided room without using a door or window.
a six sided room ... very bad eyes and old fingers.
bkmk
We will also be able to travel, faster than the speed of light, to any place in the Universe..............
YES! ... We will be ‘non-local with our extra variability. Jesus hinted at this lesson in John 14:1-4 ... in essence, when we have seen Jesus we have seen the Father, for we can sense of the Father is where He is in our realm of variables, as Jesus! The Father is so much greater than our limits well that we cannot sense Him except where He intersects our realm of limits.
There are literally millions and millions of galaxies out there, each one having a billion or more stars with planets to explore!......................
[snip] Physicists are excited about anyons not only because their discovery confirms decades of theoretical work, but also for practical reasons. For example: Anyons are at the heart of an effort by Microsoft to build a working quantum computer. [/snip]
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