Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1159-1175

  Jitomirskaya, Svetlana Ya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0033235963     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/121066     Document Type: Article

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