Analogy between unconventional superconductivity and unconventional states of liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5540-5543

  Tolédano, Pierre ^a,b   Figueiredo Neto, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

BENT SHAPED MOLECULES; DISCRETE SYMMETRY OPERATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MESOPHASES; TWO DIMENSIONAL PAIRING WAVE SUPERCONDUCTORS; UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTING STATES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0343536432     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5540     Document Type: Article

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