Observation of broken time-reversal symmetry in the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3

Science

Volumn 345, Issue 6193, 2014, Pages 190-193

  Schemm, E R ^a,b,c   Gannon, W J ^d,e   Wishne, C M ^d   Halperin, W P ^d   Kapitulnik, A ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FERMION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84904103051     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1248552     Document Type: Article

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