Pair-Breaking and Superconducting State Recovery Dynamics in MgB 4

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 26 I, 2003, Pages 2670021-2670024

  Demsar, J ^a,b   Averitt, R D ^a   Taylor, A J ^a   Kabanov, V V ^b   Kang, W N ^c   Kim, H J ^c   Choi, E M ^c   Lee, S I ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; FREQUENCIES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE SHIFT; PHONONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

PAIR-BREAKING DYNAMICS (PBD); PHOTOEXCITATION INTENSITY;

MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 1042277407     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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