Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices
@article{Mourik2012SignaturesOM, title={Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices}, author={V. Mourik and K. Zuo and S. Frolov and S. Plissard and E. Bakkers and L. Kouwenhoven}, journal={Science}, year={2012}, volume={336}, pages={1003 - 1007} }
Majoranas Arrive When a negatively charged electron meets a positron—its positively charged antiparticle—they annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays. A Majorana fermion, on the other hand, is a neutral particle, which is its own antiparticle. No sightings of a Majorana have been reported in the elementary particle world, but recently they have been proposed to exist in solid-state systems and suggested to be of interest as a quantum computing platform. Mourik et al. (p. 1003, published… CONTINUE READING
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