Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition to the superconducting state of heavy-fermion superlattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  She, Jian Huang ^a   Balatsky, Alexander V ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREZINSKII-KOSTERLITZ-THOULESS TRANSITION; BKT TRANSITION; EFFECTIVE MASS; HEAVY-FERMION; MAGNETIC FLUCTUATION; NORMAL METALS; NUMBER OF LAYERS; PAIR BREAKING EFFECT; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; RESISTIVITY DATA; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; VORTEX CORES; VORTEX SYSTEMS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERLATTICES; YTTERBIUM;

ELECTRON ENERGY ANALYZERS;

EID: 84865201926     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.077002     Document Type: Article

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