The Higgs mode in disordered superconductors close to a quantum phase transition

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 188-192

  Sherman, Daniel ^a,b,h   Pracht, Uwe S ^b   Gorshunov, Boris ^b,c,d   Poran, Shachaf ^a   Jesudasan, John ^e   Chand, Madhavi ^e   Raychaudhuri, Pratap ^e   Swanson, Mason ^f   Trivedi, Nandini ^f   Auerbach, Assa ^g   Scheffler, Marc ^b   Frydman, Aviad ^a   Dressel, Martin ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

DISORDERED SUPERCONDUCTORS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING PAIRING; SUPERCONDUCTOR INSULATOR TRANSITIONS; TERAHERTZ TRANSMISSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84926074049     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3227     Document Type: Article

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