On Monday, the first day of the March Meeting, Leo presented our newest data in the direction of generating and detecting Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires. The reception was quite overwhelming: the room was packed and just hours after the talk optimistic reports appeared in the news.
http://www.nature.com/news/quest-for-quirky-quantum-particles-may-have-struck-gold-1.10124
We received a lot of feedback from colleagues here in Boston, including several important insights into the possible meaning of the data. I am eager to get back to Delft where Kun and Vincent are continuing with “sanity check” experiments.
spin and coffee 