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Retraction of Nature paper puts Majorana research on a new path

26 Mar 2021
Taken from the April 2021 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "Pulled paper slows hunt for Majorana".

Physicists remain convinced that the elusive Majorana particle will be found, despite the retraction of a paper claiming its discovery, as Alexander Hellemans reports

Leo Kouwenhoven
Change of heart Leo Kouwenhoven from the Technical University in Delft, who claimed in 2018 to have spotted the Majorana particle in an extremely thin semiconductor nanowire – a result that turned out to be 'inconsistent' following a re-analysis of the data. (CC BY Sebastiaan ter Burg)
A high-profile publication that claimed to have discovered the elusive Majorana quasiparticle has be

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Alexander Hellemans is a science writer based in Belgium
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