Impurity scattering effects on the low-temperature specific heat of d-wave superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 14350-14353

  Chang, C ^a   Lin, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 0001087305     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.14350     Document Type: Article

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