Single fermion manipulation via superconducting phase differences in multiterminal Josephson junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Van Heck, B ^a   Mi, S ^a   Akhmerov, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84908431939     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.155450     Document Type: Article

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