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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0010440/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0010440/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires — mentioned by rdtsc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710986</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:cond-mat_0010440:28710986</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:33:16 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah probably a bit of an exaggeration. &amp;quot;Major&amp;quot; ... &amp;quot;Majorona particle&amp;quot; I can see how one can make a subconscious connection there :-) I guess I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call it major but rather &amp;quot;exiting&amp;quot; strategy. The theoretical result from Kitaev [1], from Microsoft research, was certainly interesting. Having a way not deal with error corrections would be really great. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0010440.pdf &amp;gt; Thus an isolated Majorana site (usually called a Majorana fermion) is immune to any kind of error!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0010440/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cond-mat.mes-hall</category></item></channel></rss>
