Experiments with acoustic solitons in crystalline solids

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Hao, H Y ^a   Maris, H J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM OXIDE; SILICON;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL; DISPERSION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SOLID STATE; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0035421590     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.064302     Document Type: Article

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