Universality of delocalization in unconventional dirty superconducting wires with broken spin-rotation symmetry

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Brouwer, P W ^a   Furusaki, A ^b   Mudry, C ^c  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONDUCTOR; ENERGY; EQUIPMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROTATION; THICKNESS;

EID: 0037281972     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.014530     Document Type: Article

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