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Physicists Hold Single Antimatter Particle for Months and Control Its Quantum States


Physicists at Northwestern University have held a single positron -- the antimatter twin of the electron -- in a trap for months and manipulated it one quantum jump at a time. They call their setup a ‘one-positron quantum cyclotron.’

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