Majorana states in inhomogeneous spin ladders

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Pedrocchi, Fabio L ^a   Chesi, Stefano ^b   Gangadharaiah, Suhas ^a,c   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL   (India)

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EID: 84869028977     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205412     Document Type: Article

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