Vortex coalescence and type-1.5 superconductivity in Sr 2RuO 4

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Garaud, Julien ^a,b   Agterberg, Daniel F ^c   Babaev, Egor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 84865700034     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.060513     Document Type: Article

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