Tunneling of anyonic Majorana excitations in topological superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Cheng, Meng ^a   Lutchyn, Roman M ^a   Galitski, Victor ^a   Das Sarma, S ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

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EID: 77957586289     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.094504     Document Type: Article

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