Superfluidity of grain boundaries in solid He4

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Pollet, L ^a   Boninsegni, M ^b   Kuklov, A B ^c   Prokof'Ev, N V ^d,e   Svistunov, B V ^d,e   Troyer, M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; MELTING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

MELTING CURVES; MELTING PRESSURE; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS;

SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

EID: 34047144978     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.135301     Document Type: Article

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