These four fundamental forces exist between fermions (quarks and leptons). They arise from the exchange of bosons. Bosons are the 'force carrying' or 'force-mediating' particles. If a fermion ...

Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical paraparticles could exist in a kind of inbetween. Although technically quasiparticles ...

This is fundamentally different from the behavior of conventional fermions and bosons, offering a new mechanism for quantum computation. The unique properties of Majorana fermions hold great promise ...

Now, a team of physicists from Rice University and Max Planck suggests something even more startling: there might be particles that defy the traditional dichotomy of fermions and bosons ...