Shoucheng Zhang | Search and Discovery of the Majorana Fermion | 2 of 2

The Majorana fermion is a hypothetical fermionic particle which is its own anti-particle. Intense research efforts focus on its experimental observation as a fundamental particlein high energy physics and as a quasi-particle in condensed matter systems. Professor Zhang discusses the theoretical prediction and the experimental discovery of the chiral Majorana fermion in a topological state of quantum matter.

[@andreizimin443]

Cutting-edge research. I'm truly grateful! Thanks.

[@TheRamCDXVI]

I'm proud of how he has broken this down step by step, presenting a beautiful mathematical equation and explanation to what I research on a daily basis. This is awesome, and worth sharing around the world. I believe we can go much farther...

[@robertstump6031]

These are brilliant ideas, that were very well presented. Excellent lecture.

[@ozachar]

What a beautiful presentation. So elegantly inspiring introduction of concepts

[@OwenGuo]

What a pity he passed away so suddenly! I heard the bad news just after watching this lecture.

[@lhsgxhz]

In my understanding, this Majorana fermion (mode) is only quasiparticles (or some collective excitation that shows the Majorana properties) in condensed matter physics, not real particles in high energy physics. The former helps us to realize some direct application (e.g. Topological Quantum Computer) in the future; the latter mostly helps us to get deeper understanding of the universe , nature, space and time, matter and force etc. And this is also a collaboration of different groups of theoretical physicists and experimental physicists, and also the previous theoretical and experimental works of many others. Anyway it is a breakthrough and congrats!

[@stevenhuang3635]

Professor Zhang had passed away in 2018, it is a great loss of our nation.

[@tachyon0]

Great lecture, RIP

[@mateuszratman3085]

Awesome lecture

[@paulcollins2289]

We need to see the slides!

[@Corvaire]

Thank you for listening Stanford, huge hugs!! ;O)- -1d+1d=0d

[@realcygnus]

superb content...........quite interesting topic.........1 of 2 didn't get recorded ?

[@zacharyburell1747]

1 was called "the electron superhighway"

[@yuhangliu7451]

RIP

[@Alfaspring]

Can An assasinated person Rest in Peace?

[@Gaby-C1]

@@Alfaspring Not sure he was assassinated. Maybe he realized the fact: discoveries can use kinda mass murder purposes...so he decided to go a monastery.

[@kellymoses8566]

@@Alfaspring he killed himself

[@jiansenxmu]

He passed away 4 years ago. 😢

[@kellymoses8566]

Zhang died in San Francisco on December 1, 2018, at the age of 55, in an apparent suicide. His family said in a statement that he died "after fighting a battle with depression."

[@user-yq5lz9eh2t]

I strongly believed Zhang was killed by CIA since Zhang was choosen as 1000 people's plan by his Mother land, China. United State America is the most devil 😈 country in the world, it is an alive evil exist in the world.

[@kellymoses8566]

@@user-yq5lz9eh2t Your english sucks and China is enslaving the Uighurs

[@user-yq5lz9eh2t]

@@kellymoses8566 Ha, Ha. Nobody believes what you saying Zhang suicide. Only stupid or sucks like you would believe so. Apparently, you want to bias the public from facts. US enslaving whole world.

[@kellymoses8566]

@@user-yq5lz9eh2t I could not care less about this man or how he died.

[@user-yq5lz9eh2t]

@@kellymoses8566 Okay, come on, Tell me how Zhang died, you said you could not care less on this.

[@fdoandres]

the fact that the spin of all the particlesr keep one direction on the electrons, and the antimatetter keep the oposite... it 's not an evidence of the influence of the quantum oscilation on this spin, movment and angular momentum in the matter? can this posible quantum oscilation efect in the matter, explain the lack of antimatter in the universe? ...when someting is oscilating, justa one directions must be taken for the particules!

[@TYYen-kp4vu]

What is English.

[@ares12265]

delicious sandwich

[@user-ee6qb3lf7g]

我相信發現反常量子霍爾效應的人不衹是張首晟一人，發現 majorana 費米子也不是一個人的功勞，希望諾貝爾委員會可以公平一點

[@user-ee6qb3lf7g]

請幫我留言給你師傅楊桭寧，請他老人家不要出來爭着領功，這是集很多精英研究的成果

[@kellymoses8566]

What a ridiculously impractical writing system.