Tunneling in Fermi Systems with Quadratic Band Crossing Points
Ipsita Mandal
备注：
similar transport properties have been studied in arXiv:2004.14749 and arXiv:2012.15567; there were some typographical errors in the published version -- this arxiv version contains the corrected results; the corrigendum has been published in Annals of Physics 440C, 168825 (2022)
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