The elementary excitations of the exactly solvable Russian doll BCS model of superconductivity

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 185-213

  Anfossi, Alberto ^a,b   Leclair, André ^c   Sierra, Germán ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Integrable spin chains (vertex models); Quantum integrability; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244500127     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2005/05/P05011     Document Type: Article

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