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A Majorana fermion is a particle that is its own antiparticle. This type of particles can appear as an end state in one-dimensional topological superconductor or the bound state induced by a half-quantized vortex in two-dimensional topological superconductors.
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Shen, SQ. (2012). Majorana Fermions in Topological Insulators. In: Topological Insulators. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32858-9_10
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