Theory of the striped superconductor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Berg, Erez ^a   Fradkin, Eduardo ^b   Kivelson, Steven A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 61849162296     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064515     Document Type: Article

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