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Doubling down on Majorana

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A superconducting device that exhibits voltage steps twice as large as expected could harbour Majorana fermions.

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Figure 1: Josephson effect in strong spin–orbit materials.

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  1. James R. Williams and David Goldhaber-Gordon are in the Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA,

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Williams, J., Goldhaber-Gordon, D. Doubling down on Majorana. Nature Phys 8, 778–779 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2459

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