High-Efficiency Cooper-Pair Splitter in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator Proximity-Coupled with Superconductor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Ying Tao ^a   Deng, Xinzhou ^b,c   Sun, Qing Feng ^d,e   Qiao, Zhenhua ^b,c  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter   (China)

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EID: 84943648140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14892     Document Type: Article

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