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A Review of Recent Attempts to Create Majorana Bound States

Speaker Prof. Patrick A. Lee
Affiliation Department of Physics, MIT and IAS, HKUST
Date January 17, 2013 (Thu)
Time 2:30 p.m.
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU

Abstract

I will critically review several experiments which claim to observe signatures of Majorana bound states. In particular, I will focus on the effect of disorder in the semiconductor nanowire with proximity induced superconductor.

Coffee and tea will be served 20 minutes prior to the seminar.