Zero-bias anomaly in a nanowire quantum dot coupled to superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Eduardo J H ^a   Jiang, Xiaocheng ^b   Aguado, Ramón ^c   Katsaros, Georgios ^a,d   Lieber, Charles M ^b   De Franceschi, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FIELDS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; INAS/INP; JOSEPHSON; KONDO RESONANCES; KONDO TEMPERATURES; LOW-ENERGY STATE; MAJORANA; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; QUASI-PARTICLE STATE; STRONG COUPLING; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; SUPERCONDUCTING LEAD; SUPERCURRENTS; TUNNEL COUPLING; WEAK COUPLINGS; ZERO-BIAS; ZERO-BIAS ANOMALY;

ALUMINUM; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84868332115     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.186802     Document Type: Article

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