Dissipative superconductivity: a universal non-equilibrium state of nanowires
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Yu Chen, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Stephen Snyder, Allen Goldman, and Alex Kamenev Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI., 48109 and 5 Intel Corp., Portland OR, 97124 (Dated: March 28, 2014)
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