Quantized conductance at the majorana phase transition in a disordered superconducting wire

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Akhmerov, A R ^a   Dahlhaus, J P ^a   Hassler, F ^a   Wimmer, M ^a   Beenakker, C W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND STATE; DEGREE OF DISORDER; DIRECT DETECTION; ELECTRICAL SHOTS; ENERGY STATE; MAGNETOCONDUCTANCE OSCILLATIONS; MAJORANA; MULTIMODES; NOISE POWER; PERIOD DOUBLING; QUANTIZED CONDUCTANCE; QUANTIZED THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; QUANTUM NUMBERS; REFLECTION MATRIX; RING GEOMETRY; SPIN-ROTATION SYMMETRY; TIME-REVERSAL; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

ELECTRIC WIRE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 79551588832     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.057001     Document Type: Article

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