Proposal for the detection and braiding of Majorana fermions in a quantum spin Hall insulator

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Mi, Shuo ^a   Pikulin, D I ^a   Wimmer, M ^a   Beenakker, C W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84879964397     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.241405     Document Type: Article

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