To close or not to close: The fate of the superconducting gap across the topological quantum phase transition in Majorana-carrying semiconductor nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

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

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCES; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; LOW-ENERGY PHYSICS; MAJORANA; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY; WIRE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84871821058     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.266402     Document Type: Article

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