Violation of the London law and Onsager-Feynman quantization in multicomponent superconductors

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 530-533

  Babaev, Egor ^a,b   Ashcroft, N W ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; QUANTUM THEORY;

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; METALLIC HYDROGEN; MULTI-COMPONENT SUPERCONDUCTORS; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; ROTATIONAL RESPONSE; SINGLE COMPONENTS; STATES OF MATTER; SUPERFLUID VELOCITY;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 34547635933     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys646     Document Type: Article

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