Nonuniversal behavior of the parity effect in monovalent atomic wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Major, Péter ^a   García Suárez, Victor M ^b   Sirichantaropass, Skon ^b   Cserti, József ^a   Lambert, Colin J ^b   Ferrer, Jaime ^c   Tichy, Géza ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

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EID: 33144485713     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.045421     Document Type: Article

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