Dephasing of Cooper pairs and subgap electron transport in superconducting hybrids
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Andrew G. Semenov,1,2 Andrei D. Zaikin,1,2,3 and Leonid S. Kuzmin2,4 1I.E.Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, P.N.Lebedev Physics Institute, 119991 Moscow, Russia 2Laboratory of Cryogenic Nanoelectronics, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 3Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 4Chalmers University of Technology, Goetenburg, Sweden (Received 18 April 2012; published 23 October 2012)
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