Thermal destruction of chiral order in a two-dimensional model of coupled trihedra

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Messio, Laura ^a   Domenge, Jean Christophe ^b   Lhuillier, Claire ^a   Pierre, Laurent ^a   Viot, Pascal ^a   Misguich, Grégoire ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIF   (France)

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EID: 50449087735     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.054435     Document Type: Article

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