Quantum wire junctions breaking time-reversal invariance

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Bellazzini, Brando ^a   Mintchev, Mihail ^b   Sorba, Paul ^c  

^a Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

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EID: 77954754920     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245441     Document Type: Article

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