Majorana fermions in a tunable semiconductor device

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Alicea, Jason ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

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EID: 77954945903     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.125318     Document Type: Article

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