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

Oct 22, 2026 - 15:45
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Physicists Hold Single Antimatter Particle for Months and Control Its Quantum States
Cloud chamber photograph by the American experimental physicist Carl David Anderson of the first positron ever identified.

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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