Proposal to stabilize and detect half-quantum vortices in strontium ruthenate thin films: Non-Abelian braiding statistics of vortices in a px +i py superconductor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Sarma, Sankar Das ^a   Nayak, Chetan ^b,c   Tewari, Sumanta ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33745079619     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.220502     Document Type: Article

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