Charge-4e superconductivity from pair-density-wave order in certain high-temperature superconductors

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 830-833

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

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TERNARY ALLOYS;

BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER; CHARGE ORDERING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; STATES OF MATTER; STRIPE ORDER; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDER PARAMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; THERMAL MELTING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 70449525554     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1389     Document Type: Article

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