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Talks Tuesday February 5<br />

Subgap states in Majorana wires<br />

Piet Brouwer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany<br />

A one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled nanowire with proximity-induced<br />

pairing from a nearby s-wave superconductor may be in a topological nontrivial<br />

state, in which it has a zero energy Majorana bound state at each end.<br />

In this talk, I will discuss how non-idealities in this proposal, such as disor<strong>der</strong><br />

or deviations from a strict one-dimensional limit, affect the topological phase.<br />

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