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Dirac quasiparticles and Majorana modes in condensed matter systems

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We present a pedagogical introduction to Dirac fermions and Majorana bound states which appear as emergent quasiparticles in several condensed matter systems.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India

    K. Sengupta

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  1. Institute of Physics , Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Somendra Mohan Bhattacharjee

  2. School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Mahan Mj

  3. Department of Physics, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Howrah, West Bengal, India

    Abhijit Bandyopadhyay

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Sengupta, K. (2017). Dirac quasiparticles and Majorana modes in condensed matter systems. In: Bhattacharjee, S., Mj, M., Bandyopadhyay, A. (eds) Topology and Condensed Matter Physics. Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6841-6_13

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