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Angelina Burmistrova Vladimirovna
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2013
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We present a microscopic theory of dc Josephson current, based on the construction of a coherent temperature Green function in the tight-binding approximation, in junctions with multiband superconductors. This theory is applied to the junctions with multiband Fe-based superconductors (FeBS) described by anisotropic s-wave order parameter symmetries, which probably realized in FeBS. We confirm microscopically the previously suggested crucial experiment for determination of the type of the order parameter symmetry in FeBS.
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