Detecting Majorana modes in one-dimensional wires by charge sensing
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Gilad Ben-Shach,1 Arbel Haim,2 Ian Appelbaum,3 Yuval Oreg,2 Amir Yacoby,1 and Bertrand I. Halperin1 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel 3Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA (Received 17 July 2014; published 5 January 2015)
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