Majorana fermion exchange in quasi-one-dimensional networks

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Clarke, David J ^a   Sau, Jay D ^b   Tewari, Sumanta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79961212216     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.035120     Document Type: Article

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26. We detail a particular method of moving the Majoranas that does not suffer from this problem in a companion paper (Ref.).