Majorana fermions in density-modulated p-wave superconducting wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Lang, Li Jun ^a   Chen, Shu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84870537290     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205135     Document Type: Article

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