FFLO phase

English

Etymology

From the initials of the names of the physicist theoreticians who predicted this superconducting phase: Peter Fulde, Richard Ferrell, Anatoly Larkin, and Yuri Ovchinniko.

Noun

FFLO phase (uncountable)

  1. A type of superconducting phase, characterized by the presence of Cooper pairs with nonzero center-of-mass momentum and a spatially non-uniform superconducting order parameter.
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