[spacetracks]

Qubits are susceptible to all kinds of environmental noise. That's why current designs are cooled to cryogenic temperatures. Certain kinds of Majorana particles solve this problem by making the qubit distributed. In a handwaving way, the 1 state of the qubit is on one end of a wire, and the zero state is on the other; really there is a Majorana particle on each end of the wire, and by manipulating them you can control the state of the qubit. To manipulate the qubit you must interact with both ends of the wire at the same time. That goes for noise as well. And noise typically acts locally, not in two places at the same time, so the qubit is protected.

[DrAwdeOccarim]

Very cool. Thank you for that! Is there an easy way to explain why you can't do this with other particles but you can with Majorana particles?