Impurity in a d-wave superconductor: Kondo effect and STM spectra

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 296-299

  Polkovnikov, Anatoli ^a   Sachdev, Subir ^a   Vojta, Matthias ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; FERMI LIQUIDS; FERMIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAMILTONIANS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; IMPURITIES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; ZINC;

FERMIONIC EXCITATIONS; KONDO EFFECT; KONDO SCREENING; WAVE SUPERCONDUCTOR;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 4143088913     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.296     Document Type: Article

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