Role of nematic fluctuations in the thermal melting of pair-density-wave phases in two-dimensional superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Barci, Daniel G ^a   Fradkin, Eduardo ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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

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EID: 79961081185     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.100509     Document Type: Article

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