Splitting of the zero-bias conductance peak as smoking gun evidence for the existence of the Majorana mode in a superconductor-semiconductor nanowire

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Das Sarma, S ^a   Sau, Jay D ^b   Stanescu, Tudor D ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84871583143     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.220506     Document Type: Article

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