Spontaneous flux lattices in ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Tewari, Sumanta ^a   Belitz, D ^a   Kirkpatrick, T R ^b   Toner, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FLUX LATTICES; SIGMA MODEL; VORTEX LATTICE;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 19744382090     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.177002     Document Type: Article

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