Andreev bound states and tunneling characteristics of a noncentrosymmetric superconductor
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C. Iniotakis,1 N. Hayashi,1,2 Y. Sawa,3 T. Yokoyama,3 U. May,1 Y. Tanaka,3 and M. Sigrist1,4 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 2CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokyo 110-0015, Japan and CREST, JST, Tokyo 110-0015, Japan 3Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan 4Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan Received 5 June 2007; published 3 July 2007
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