Elasticity and melting of skyrmion flux lattices in p-wave superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Li, Qi ^a   Toner, John ^a   Belitz, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MAGNETIZATION; MELTING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; VORTEX FLOW;

MELTING CURVE; P-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SKYRMION FLUX LATTICES; VORTEX FLUX LATTICES;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 34247850796     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.187002     Document Type: Article

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