Latest Nanowire Experiment Boosts Confidence in Majorana Sighting (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

Latest Nanowire Experiment Boosts Confidence in Majorana Sighting

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This is a device that physicists used to spot the clearest signal yet of Majorana particles. The gray wire in the middle is the nanowire, and the green area is a strip of superconducting aluminum.

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Hao Zhang/QuTech

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