Stability of zero modes in parafermion chains
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Adam S. Jermyn,1,* Roger S. K. Mong,1 Jason Alicea,1 and Paul Fendley2 1Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4714, USA (Received 27 August 2014; revised manuscript received 23 September 2014; published 7 October 2014)
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