Peculiarities of the superconducting gaps and the electron-boson interaction in TmNi2B2C as seen by point-contact spectroscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Naidyuk, Yu G ^a   Kvitnitskaya, O E ^a   Tiutrina, L V ^a   Yanson, I K ^a   Behr, G ^b   Fuchs, G ^b   Drechsler, S L ^b   Nenkov, K ^b   Schultz, L ^b  

^a B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

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EID: 80053475178     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.094516     Document Type: Article

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