Intrinsic paramagnetic meissner effect due to s-wave odd-frequency superconductivity

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Di Bernardo, A ^a   Salman, Z ^b   Wang, X L ^c   Amado, M ^a   Egilmez, M ^d   Flokstra, M G ^e   Suter, A ^b   Lee, S L ^e   Zhao, J H ^c   Prokscha, T ^b   Morenzoni, E ^b   Blamire, M G ^a   Linder, J ^f   Robinson, J W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; PARAMAGNETISM; SHEAR WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER THEORY; PARAMAGNETIC MEISSNER EFFECTS; SUPERCONDUCTING CONDENSATES; SUPERCONDUCTING LEAD; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 84950340282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041021     Document Type: Article

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