dc transport in superconducting point contacts: A full-counting-statistics view

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Cuevas, J C ^a   Beizig, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ION TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 13744260456     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.214512     Document Type: Article

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