Interband superconductivity: Contrasts between Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer and Eliashberg theories

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dolgov, Oleg V ^a   Mazin, Igor I ^b   Parker, David ^b   Golubov, Alexander A ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 60949105937     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.060502     Document Type: Article

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