Metal-insulator transition in a quantum wire driven by a modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Japaridze, G I ^a   Johannesson, Henrik ^b,c   Ferraz, Alvaro ^d  

^a ANDRONIKASHVILI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

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EID: 69949156592     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.041308     Document Type: Article

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