Magnetic impurities in a superconductor: Effect of domain walls and interference

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Sacramento, P D ^a   Dugaev, V K ^a,b   Vieira, V R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b RZESZOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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EID: 34447621439     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.014512     Document Type: Article

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