Dislocations and vortices in pair-density-wave superconductors

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 639-642

  Agterberg, D F ^a,b   Tsunetsugu, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY; CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEFECTS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); GROUND STATE; HEAVY FERMION SUPERCONDUCTORS; SPIN DENSITY WAVES;

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; DIVERSE RANGE; ORGANIC SUPERCONDUCTOR; OSCILLATING STRUCTURES; QUARK MATTER; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDERING; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; TRANSLATIONAL INVARIANCE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 48749102453     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys999     Document Type: Article

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