Helical Dirac-Majorana interferometer in a superconductor/topological insulator sandwich structure

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Chao Xing ^a   Trauzettel, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 79961139044     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.220510     Document Type: Article

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