Point nodes persisting far beyond T c in Bi2212

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kondo, Takeshi ^a   Malaeb, W ^a   Ishida, Y ^a   Sasagawa, T ^b   Sakamoto, H ^c   Takeuchi, Tsunehiro ^d   Tohyama, T ^e   Shin, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; COPPER; SCATTERING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; COOLING; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84937010971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8699     Document Type: Article

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