Topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions in RKKY systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Klinovaja, Jelena ^a,b   Stano, Peter ^a,c   Yazdani, Ali ^d   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMI WAVE VECTORS; LOCALIZED MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL; RUDERMAN-KITTEL-KASUYA-YOSIDA; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN SUSCEPTIBILITY; UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TOPOLOGY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84887089055     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.186805     Document Type: Article

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