Fractional-flux vortices and spin superfluidity in triplet superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Babaev, Egor ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DENSITY; FRACTIONAL-FLUX VORTICES; PHASE GRADIENTS; SPIN SUPERFLUIDITY; TRIPLET SUPERCONDUCTORS;

FREE ENERGY; GROUND STATE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; ROTATION; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; VORTEX FLOW;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 18144394349     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.137001     Document Type: Article

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