Inhomogeneous pairing in highly disordered s-wave superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-13

  Ghosal, Amit ^a   Randeria, Mohit ^a   Trivedi, Nandini ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 85038311142     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.014501     Document Type: Article

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