Multiband s-wave topological superconductors: Role of dimensionality and magnetic field response

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 20, 2013, Pages

  Deng, Shusa ^a   Ortiz, Gerardo ^b   Viola, Lorenza ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84877915493     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.205414     Document Type: Article

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