High-Tc superconductors: A variational theory of the superconducting state

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Paramekanti, Arun ^a,b   Randeria, Mohit ^a,c   Trivedi, Nandini ^a,c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; VIBRATION;

EID: 42749100242     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.054504     Document Type: Article

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