Superconductivity mediated by a soft phonon mode: Specific heat, resistivity, thermal expansion, and magnetization of Y B6

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Lortz, R ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Tutsch, U ^a   Abe, S ^a   Meingast, C ^b   Popovich, P ^b,c   Knafo, W ^b,c   Shitsevalova, N ^d   Paderno, Yu B ^d   Junod, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d FRANTSEVICH INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Ukraine)

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EID: 33244460833     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.024512     Document Type: Article

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