Quantized magnetic confinement in quantum wires

A Tarasov1, S Hugger, Hengyi Xu

  • 1Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.

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