Wigner crystallization in inhomogeneous one-dimensional wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Mueller, Erich J ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 33644953312     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.075322     Document Type: Article

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