State space for planar Majorana zero modes
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Jackiw-2012-State space for planar Majorana.pdf
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Author(s)
Jackiw, Roman
Pi, So-Young
Date Issued
January 2012
Journal
Physical Review B
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Jackiw, R., and S.-Y. Pi. “State Space for Planar Majorana Zero Modes.” Physical Review B 85.3 (2012): 033102-1-033102-3. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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Abstract
Zero modes arising from a planar Majorana equation in the presence of N vortices require an N-dimensional state space, where N=2[superscript N/2] for N even and N=2[superscript (N+1)/2] for N odd. The mode operators form a restricted N-dimensional Clifford algebra.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.033102
