Metastable π junction between an s±-Wave and an s-wave superconductor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Berg, E ^a   Lindner, N H ^b,c   Pereg Barnea, T ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALF-INTEGER FLUX QUANTA; JOSEPHSON COUPLING; LOCAL MINIMUMS; ORDER PARAMETER; PNICTIDES; SUPERCONDUCTING LOOPS; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

NIOBIUM; PHASE INTERFACES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79960648525     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.147003     Document Type: Article

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