Signatures of an electronic nematic phase at the isotropic-nematic phase transition

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Kee, Hae Young ^a   Kim, Eugene H ^a,b   Chung, Chung Hou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICS; THEORY;

EID: 1042288235     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.245109     Document Type: Article

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