Fermi surface of the most dilute superconductor

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Xiao ^a,b   Zhu, Zengwei ^a   Fauqué, Benoît ^a   Behnia, Kamran ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Semiconductor Physics; Strongly Correlated Materials; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FERMI SURFACE; BCS THEORY; NERNST EFFECT; NORMAL STATE; PAIRING MECHANISM; SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS; SENSITIVE PROBE; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS;

FERMI SURFACE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84878325722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.021002     Document Type: Article

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