Effect of local inhomogeneity on nucleation; Case of charge density wave depinning

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 170-176

  Yumoto, Masanori ^a   Fukuyama, Hidetoshi ^a   Matsukawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge density wave (CDW); Commensurability; Frustration; Impurity; Inhomogeneity; Nucleation; Phase Hamiltonian; Threshold field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033407310     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.68.170     Document Type: Article

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