Tunneling characteristics of a chain of Majorana bound states

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Flensberg, Karsten ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 78649708178     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.180516     Document Type: Article

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