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Read article: Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions Particles and interactions Research update Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions Researchers in Japan and Korea say they have found evidence for the existence of these elusive quasiparticles in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet
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