Superconductivity on the border of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism in UGe2

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6796, 2000, Pages 587-592

  Saxena, S S ^a,b,e   Agarwal, P ^a   Ahilan, K ^a   Grosche, F M ^a,d   Haselwimmer, R K W ^a   Steiner, M J ^a   Pugh, E ^a   Walker, I R ^a   Julian, S R ^a   Monthoux, P ^a   Lonzarich, G G ^a   Huxley, A ^c   Sheikin, I ^c   Braithwaite, D ^c   Flouquet, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GERMANIUM; METAL; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETISM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 0034632726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020500     Document Type: Article

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