First-principles study of superconductivity and Fermi-surface nesting in ultrahard transition metal carbides

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Noffsinger, Jesse ^a   Giustino, Feliciano ^a   Louie, Steven G ^a   Cohen, Marvin L ^a  

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EID: 44349168897     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.180507     Document Type: Article

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