Wigner-poisson statistics of topological transitions in a josephson junction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Beenakker, C W J ^a   Edge, J M ^a   Dahlhaus, J P ^a   Pikulin, D I ^a   Mi, Shuo ^a   Wimmer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; LEVEL CROSSING; NON-HERMITIAN MATRIX; RANDOM MATRIX THEORY; SPACING DISTRIBUTION; SPIN-ROTATION SYMMETRY; STATISTICAL THEORY; TOPOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM OPTICS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84880531743     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.037001     Document Type: Article

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