Fermion-parity anomaly of the critical supercurrent in the quantum spin-Hall effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Beenakker, C W J ^a   Pikulin, D I ^a   Hyart, T ^a   Schomerus, H ^b   Dahlhaus, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE LENGTHS; EDGE STATE; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; LOW TEMPERATURES; PARITY CONSTRAINT; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRODES; SUPERCURRENTS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84871776561     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.017003     Document Type: Article

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