Conductance and current noise of a superconductor/ferromagnet quantum point contact

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Cottet, Audrey ^a   Belzig, Wolfgang ^b  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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EID: 40949112894     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.064517     Document Type: Article

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