Supersolid state of matter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Prokof'ev, Nikolay ^a   Svistunov, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONIC SYSTEMS; SUPERFLUID INTERFACES; SUPERSOLID STATES; TRANSLATION SYMMETRY;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; FREE ENERGY; GROUND STATE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EID: 18144396902     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.155302     Document Type: Article

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