Enhancement of the critical temperature of superconductors by anderson localization

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Burmistrov, I S ^a   Gornyi, I V ^b,c   Mirlin, A D ^b,d  

^a LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; ANTILOCALIZATION; COOPER CHANNELS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH-T; LONG-RANGE COULOMB INTERACTION; MULTIFRACTALITY; NOVEL MATERIALS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; WEAK LOCALIZATION;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84855500361     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.017002     Document Type: Article

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