Fractional vortices on grain boundaries: The case for broken time-reversal symmetry in high-temperature superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 15239-15247

  Bailey, D ^a   Sigrist, M ^a   Laughlin, R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001319435     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.55.15239     Document Type: Article

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