Monday, July 23, 2012

Caution and skepticism win again

On Nanoscale views, Doug Natelson has an excellent post Exotic (quasi)particles, and why experimental physics is challenging.
He points out recent theoretical work showing that a zero-bias peak in the I-V characteristic seen in recent experiments is not conclusive evidence for Majorana particles. 



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