Zero-bias peaks in the tunneling conductance of spin-orbit-coupled superconducting wires with and without Majorana end-states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Jie ^a   Potter, Andrew C ^b   Law, K T ^a   Lee, Patrick A ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND STATE; EXPERIMENTAL PROBES; MAJORANA; MULTIBAND; PROXIMITY-INDUCED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; TUNNELING CONDUCTANCE; ZERO-BIAS;

NANOWIRES; WIRE;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84871800888     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.267002     Document Type: Article

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