Majorana fermions as quanta of a superfluid vacuum

2022/03/30 by J. A. Sauls, Sauls, J. A. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.16698

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Abstract

This short article on a thermodynamic signature of Majorana fermions confined on the surface of a 3D topological superfluid in the presence of a moving condensate was circulated to a limited audience in Fall 2013. Since recent experiments are looking at possible signatures of a gas of Majorana excitations confined in two dimensions on the surface of superfluid ³He-B it seems timely to post this earlier perspective to arXiv.

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