Staggered flux vortices and the superconducting transition in the layered cuprates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Honerkamp, Carsten ^a,b   Lee, Patrick A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONDENSATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FLUXES; HAMILTONIANS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERING; FLUX FLOW (FF) PHASES; MEAN FIELD (MF) CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 2942572033     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.177002     Document Type: Article

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