Deconfined Quantum Critical Points

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5663, 2004, Pages 1490-1494

  Senthil, T ^a   Vishwanath, Ashvin ^a   Balents, Leon ^b   Sachdev, Subir ^c   Fisher, Matthew P A ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COMPLEX MATERIALS; ELECTRON SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; MATERIALS; MECHANICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICS;

EID: 1542317587     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091806     Document Type: Article

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27. This research was generously supported by NSF under grants DMR-0213282, DMR-0308945 (T.S.), DMR-9985255 (L.B.), DMR-0098226 (S.S.), and DMR-0210790 and PHY-9907949 (M.P.A.F.). We also acknowledges funding from the NEC Corporation (T.S.), the Packard Foundation (L.B.), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (T.S. and L.B.), a Pappalardo Fellowship (A.V.), and an award from The Research Corporation (T.S.). We thank the Aspen Center for Physics for hospitality.