<div dir="auto">Thanks for the update. Best wishes on staying safe!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 7, 2017 8:25 AM, "John Clark" <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 Dylan Distasio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com" target="_blank">interzone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> John-<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div><div style="display:inline">D</div><span class="m_1302177901891933487gmail-" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">o you know if these folks are associated with Microsoft's efforts in this space?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">> </div><font size="4">As far as I know they are not,</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><font size="4">It turns out I was wrong they ARE connected with Microsoft, they are all part of<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Microsoft's<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Q Station project.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Yesterday they published a new paper in<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Nature Communications<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>with more proof that they have indeed found<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Majorana fermions, the spin of their quasiparticle<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>is the opposite of<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>its momentum in a<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>magnetic field, and that is pretty much the smoking gun for a Majorana fermion.</font><br> <div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">By the way I may be offline for a while, Hurricane Irma and its 180 mph winds seems to be heading more or less strait for me. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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