Topological solitons in three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Garaud, Julien ^a,b   Carlström, Johan ^a,b   Babaev, Egor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROKEN TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; TOPOLOGICAL SOLITON;

MAGNETIC FLUX; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 80155137550     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.197001     Document Type: Article

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