Unpaired Majorana fermions in a layered topological superconductor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Seradjeh, Babak ^a   Grosfeld, Eytan ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 79961108681     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.174521     Document Type: Article

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