Direct numerical demonstration of sign-preserving quasiparticle interference via an impurity inside a vortex core in an unconventional superconductor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Nagai, Yuki ^a   Nakai, Noriyuki ^a,b   Machida, Masahiko ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84859067840     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.092505     Document Type: Article

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