Two classes of Mott insulator

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Lee, Dung Hai ^a,b   Kivelson, Steven A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; DOPING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEAT TOLERANCE; MOTT INSULATOR; PHASE TRANSITION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 4344572101     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.024506     Document Type: Article

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