Vortices with Fractional Flux in Two-Gap Superconductors and in Extended Faddeev Model

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Babaev, Egor ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; GROUND STATE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NIOBIUM; QUANTUM THEORY; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TANTALUM; VANADIUM;

ABRIKOSOV VORTICES; FADDEEV MODEL; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; SUPERCURRENT;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0347818779     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.067001     Document Type: Article

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