Topological defect-phase soliton and the pairing symmetry of a two-band superconductor: Role of the proximity effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Vakaryuk, Victor ^a,b   Stanev, Valentin ^a   Lee, Wei Cheng ^c   Levchenko, Alex ^d  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON-BASED; MULTIBAND SUPERCONDUCTORS; PAIRING SYMMETRIES; PROXIMITY EFFECTS; RELATIVE PHASE; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; TWO-BAND SUPERCONDUCTORS;

DEFECTS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84870168819     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.227003     Document Type: Article

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