Enhanced zero-bias majorana peak in the differential tunneling conductance of disordered multisubband quantum-wire/superconductor junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Pientka, Falko ^a   Kells, Graham ^a   Romito, Alessandro ^a   Brouwer, Piet W ^a   Von Oppen, Felix ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND STATE; GAP STRUCTURES; MAJORANA; SUBBANDS; SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE; TUNNELING CONDUCTANCE; ZERO-BIAS;

EXPERIMENTS; INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; TOPOLOGY;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84870421978     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.227006     Document Type: Article

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