Spin-nematic order in the frustrated pyrochlore-lattice quantum rotor model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Gregor, Karol ^a   Huse, David A ^a   Sondhi, S L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33746391420     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.024425     Document Type: Article

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