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FFLO phase
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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
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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.
Related terms
en FFLO
en FFLO state
en eponyms
en Superconductivity