Universal conductance of nanowires near the superconductor-metal quantum transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Sachdev, Subir ^a   Werner, Philipp ^b   Troyer, Matthias ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIRE;

NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDERS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 3242661989     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.237003     Document Type: Article

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