Sound velocity anomaly at the Mott transition: Application to organic conductors and V2O3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Hassan, S R ^a,b   Georges, A ^a,b   Krishnamurthy, H R ^c,d  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^d JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BANDWIDTH; ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEGATIVE IONS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

LATTICE DEGREES; LAYERED MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION; MOTT TRANSITION;

ORGANIC CONDUCTORS;

EID: 18144377419     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.036402     Document Type: Article

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