Nonlinear quantum critical transport and the schwinger mechanism for a superfluid-mott-insulator transition of bosons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 26, 2005, Pages

  Green, A G ^a   Sondhi, S L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; EXPLICIT COMPUTATION; NONLINEAR QUANTUM CRITICAL TRANSPORT; SCHWINGER MECHANISM; SUPERFLUID-MOTT-INSULATOR TRANSITION;

INSULATION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 33244476999     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.267001     Document Type: Article

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