Wigner crystalline edges in ν≲1 quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 16611-16617

  Goldmann, Eyal ^a   Renn, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000656770     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.16611     Document Type: Article

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