Unpaired Floquet Majorana fermions without magnetic fields

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Reynoso, Andres A ^a   Frustaglia, Diego ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

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EID: 84875345764     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.115420     Document Type: Article

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