Theoretical description of the superconducting state of nanostructures at intermediate temperatures: A combined treatment of collective modes and fluctuations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ribeiro, Pedro ^a   García García, Antonio M ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE MODES; COMBINED EFFECT; COMBINED TREATMENT; FINITE TEMPERATURES; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURES; LEADING ORDERS; LEVEL SPACING; LOW ENERGIES; NANO-SCALE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDER PARAMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84857516847     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.097004     Document Type: Article

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