journal article·2018-10Open access

A missing step is a key step

Fan Zhang, Wei Pan

Nature Materials· Volume 17· Issue 10

Abstract

Physicists are searching for superconducting materials that can host Majoranas. New evidence for these elusive particles is provided by missing Shapiro steps in a Josephson effect mediated by an accidental Dirac semimetal.
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