Transition from fractional to majorana fermions in rashba nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Klinovaja, Jelena ^a   Stano, Peter ^a,b   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND STATE; CHARGED FERMIONS; MAJORANA; NULL SPACE; RASHBA SPIN ORBIT INTERACTION; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84870582391     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.236801     Document Type: Article

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