Macroscopic quantum tunneling in one-dimensional superconducting wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 9436-9442

  Chang, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0000307368     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.9436     Document Type: Article

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