Quasiclassical Green's function approach to mesoscopic superconductivity

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1251-1288

  Belzig, Wolfgang ^a   Wilhelm, Frank K ^a   Bruder, Christoph ^a,b   Schön, Gerd ^a,d   Zaikin, Andrei D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

ANDREEV REFLECTION;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0032639852     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1999.0710     Document Type: Article

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