Quantum critical fluctuations in disordered d-wave superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Meyer, Julia S ^a   Gornvi, Igor V ^b,c,d   Altland, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; FERMI LEVEL; FERMIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LOW TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

DISORDERED D-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTORS; QUANTUM CRITICAL FLUCTUATIONS; QUASIPARTICLES; SECONDARY SUPERCONDUCTOR TRANSITION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037627698     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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