Quantum Criticality of d-Wave Quasiparticles and Superconducting Phase Fluctuations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2370011-2370014

  Vafek, Oskar ^a   Tešanović, Zlatko ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; FERMIONS; GAGES; GROUND STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMODYNAMICS; TOPOLOGY;

FLUCTUATING VORTICES; SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; VORTICITY;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0346686246     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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