Andreev reflection from noncentrosymmetric superconductors and Majorana bound-state generation in half-metallic ferromagnets

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Duckheim, Mathias ^a   Brouwer, Piet W ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 79960997244     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.054513     Document Type: Article

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