Magnetic-field dependence of superconducting energy gaps in YNi2B2C: Evidence of multiband superconductivity

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Mukhopadhyay, S ^a   Sheet, Goutam ^a   Raychaudhuri, P ^a   Takeya, H ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 33749158988     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.014545     Document Type: Article

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