Ac Josephson effect in finite-length nanowire junctions with majorana modes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  San Jose, Pablo ^a   Prada, Elsa ^b   Aguado, Ramón ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC JOSEPHSON EFFECT; ANTICROSSINGS; BOUND STATE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; JOSEPHSON; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; MAJORANA; NANOWIRE JUNCTIONS; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT; QUASI PARTICLES; SUPERCONDUCTING JUNCTIONS; SUPERCURRENTS; TRANSIENT REGIME;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; NANOWIRES; TRANSIENTS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84862577076     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.257001     Document Type: Article

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