Phase diagram of the strongly disordered s-wave superconductor NbN close to the metal-insulator transition

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chand, Madhavi ^a   Saraswat, Garima ^a   Kamlapure, Anand ^a   Mondal, Mintu ^a   Kumar, Sanjeev ^a   Jesudasan, John ^a   Bagwe, Vivas ^a   Benfatto, Lara ^b   Tripathi, Vikram ^a   Raychaudhuri, Pratap ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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EID: 84863011103     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.014508     Document Type: Article

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