Individual topological tunnelling events of a quantum field probed through their macroscopic consequences

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 503-508

  Sahu, Mitrabhanu ^a   Bae, Myung Ho ^a   Rogachev, Andrey ^a   Pekker, David ^a,b   Wei, Tzu Chieh ^a,c   Shah, Nayana ^a   Goldbart, Paul M ^a   Bezryadin, Alexey ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; MACROSCOPIC CONSEQUENCES; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM TUNNELLING; RESISTIVE MEASUREMENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDER PARAMETERS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 67650995994     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1276     Document Type: Article

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