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Majorana fermions as quanta of a superfluid vacuum

J. A. Sauls

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This short article on a thermodynamic signature of Majorana fermions confined on the surface of a 3D topological superfluid in the presence of a moving condensate was circulated to a limited audience in Fall 2013. Since recent experiments are looking at possible signatures of a gas of Majorana excitations confined in two dimensions on the surface of superfluid $^3$He-B it seems timely to post this earlier perspective to arXiv.

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Key concepts: MAJORANA, Fermion, Superfluidity, Physics, Majorana equation, Surface (topology), Signature (topology), Theoretical physics