Superfluidity of grain boundaries and supersolid behavior

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5790, 2006, Pages 1098-1100

  Sasaki, S ^a   Ishiguro, R ^a,c   Caupin, F ^a   Maris, H J ^a,b   Balibar, S ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; PRESSURE VESSELS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

COMMUNICATING VESSELS; MASS FLOW;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

HELIUM;

EQUILIBRIUM; FLUID FLOW; GRAIN BOUNDARY; HELIUM; MASS TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CRYSTAL; FLOW; LIQUID; LOW TEMPERATURE; MASS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID;

EID: 33748064677     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130879     Document Type: Article

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