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AUG 01, 2012

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1663

Physics Today

April 2012, page 52 —The last sentence of the caption for figure 3 should read, “In particular, the Sun is about 8 kpc from the galactic center.”

May 2012, page 42 —The last two sentences in box 1 should read, “Atoms became the subjects of chemistry and the basis for statistical models of gases. In the early 20th century, with Jean Perrin’s observation of Brownian motion in a colloidal suspension, the concept of the atom returned at long last to the realm of physics.”

June 2012, page 14 —Although Grigori Volovik and others realized the important connection between zero-energy modes and p-wave vortices early on, the first to relate self-adjoint (and thus explicitly Majorana) zero-energy modes to the vortices and to novel (non-abelian) statistics were Nicholas Read and Dmitry Green, in work published in 2000.

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Volume 65, Number 8

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