Physics (College Park, Md., Dec. 30) -- Among Physics’ “highlights of the year”: U. of I. researchers generated two of the quasiparticles at either end of a nanowire connected to superconducting leads and then used a magnetic field to cause the states to annihilate, as expected when a particle meets its antiparticle. Finding examples of Majorana states in solids could be a route to making quantum computers that are more resistant to noise.