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Nobel Focus: Helium Impersonates a Superconductor

David Lindley

Published Oct 1, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

Anthony Leggett’s complete theory for atomic pairing in a superfluid won him one third of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevfocus.12.16

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