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When @VincentMourik and I first obtained notebook-level data from the retracted Nature in 2019, we quickly matched all plots to the paper figures. Except the all-important figure 2 - it was missing. It's the central figure with the 'quantized plateau'.
There was a set of data obtained under the same conditions as Figure 2, but it looked different. For a while we thought that this was just another instance with a different pattern of stochastic switches, not the one used in the paper.
Then @VincentMourik stared at it for a long time and realized: it was the same data! But... four vertical lines (current-voltage characteristics) were missing from the middle. At first we could not believe it, made 15 slides just studying the noise patterns in the two images...
The authors later told us it was done for aesthetics. We have a problem with this. The segments where data jumps off plateau (magenta) or where 'Majorana' peak splits (green) were aesthetically cut off. But 7 charge switches prolonging the plateau were kept (yellow). Convenient?
If you looked at the 'Quantized Majorana Conductance' paper and wondered - why does the all-important Figure 2 not show what is happening beyond the frame on the right, why does it suddenly stop - now you know. More about charge jumps and this 'plateau' to come.
