Universal aspects of Coulomb-frustrated phase separation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Jamei, Reza ^a   Kivelson, Steven ^a   Spivak, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB-FRUSTRATED PHASE SEPARATION; FREE ENERGY DENSITY; HAMILTONIAN DENSITY; LIFSHITZ TRANSITION;

FREE ENERGY; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 18144432087     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.056805     Document Type: Article

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