Theory of the pairbreaking superconductor-metal transition in nanowires

Annals of Physics

Volumn 324, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 523-583

  Del Maestro, Adrian ^a   Rosenow, Bernd ^a   Sachdev, Subir ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Low dimensional transport; Nanowire; Pairbreaking; Quantum phase transition; Superconductivity; Superconductor metal transition; Thermoelectric transport; Wiedemann Franz law

Indexed keywords

EID: 60149095360     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: 1096035X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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