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At least in high-T$\\sb{\\rm c}$ Bi-materials and in many superconductor-insulator superlattices this new mechanism may be important.","\"The last part examines the viability of the \"\"Efetov-Larkin\"\" state (s-wave, spin triplet, odd between layers) as an identification of the pairing state of those cuprate superconductors which contain double CuO$\\sb2$ planes. It is concluded that most of the NMR and other data are consistent with this assignment but there are one or two obvious difficulties.\"","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:26:24Z (GMT). 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