Turning a band insulator into an exotic superconductor

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wan, Xiangang ^a   Savrasov, Sergey Y ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; INSULATION; SELENIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON; NEUTRON SCATTERING; P WAVE; PHONON; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84904184817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5144     Document Type: Article

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