Round 9: Tossup 1

A February 2025 Nature paper found that the parity of states named for this scientist at the opposite end of a 1DTS can be measured in a single shot using a stack of indium arsenide and aluminum. Linking states named for this scientist in a 1D lattice and considering the nearest neighbor produces a Kitaev chain. Microsoft claims to have created (15[1])topoconductors in their new quantum computer named “[this scientist] (*) 1.” Setting the Dirac operator to be purely Hermitian in the Dirac equation produces a relativistic wave equation named for this scientist. (-5[1])Particles named for Fermi and this scientist are observed in bound states called “zero (10[1])modes” and would have their existence confirmed by observing neutrinoless double beta decay. (-5[1])For 10 points, what Italian (10[1])physicist names fermions that are their own antiparticle? ■END■ (10[2])

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