Mott insulators without symmetry breaking

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Lee, Dung Hai ^a,b   Leinaas, Jon Magne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FERMIONS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

FRACTIONAL OCCUPATIONS; LANDAU GAGES; MOTT INSULATORS; OCCUPATION NUMBER;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

EID: 2442430211     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.096401     Document Type: Article

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