Signatures of Pairing Mechanisms and Order Parameters in Ferromagnetic Superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 370011-370014

  Kirkpatrick, T R ^a   Belitz, D ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENERGY GAP; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FERMI LEVEL; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHONONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TENSORS; VECTORS;

GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; ORDER PARAMETERS (OP);

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 1442331191     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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